A look into the greatest riffs in folk music, covering everyone from Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson.

Some of the Best Guitar Riffs of the 21st Century (so far) have been written by The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, ...

Long before he contributed to Ozzy Osbourne‘s Patient Number 9, Pearl Jam and former Mad Season guitarist Mike McCready ...

A guitar riff is the hook of a song ... This song features changes in time signature (the number of beats in a bar), a feature of Indian classical music, which was an influence on composer ...

To illustrate his point, McCready grabbed a guitar and played the riff — an ominous, blues-infused groove which you can check out at the 29:20 minute mark in the video below. He couldn’t ...