Nobody can ever out-Jimi Jimi, so those who dare to take on one of his cuts better make their cover an experience. At age 80 - yes, you read that right - John Lee Hooker strips "Red House" of it …

Let's face it, nobody sounded like Jimi, but in the late '60s everybody wanted to. Whoever called Cream's Eric Clapton "Slowhand" obviously never heard the frantic blizzard of fuzzed-out  …

From rockabilly's creation to nationwide sensation, Elvis' world teemed with artists tapping parallel musical wellsprings, dreaming of a Presley-sized payoff. As the snare snaps a couple of rapid-fire  …

Virtually anything played on the radio, from the rawest blues to the slickest pop - even the grandest opera - got fed into the hopper of Elvis' music-making machine for processing, coming out as rock.  …

Elvis wasn't the first country cousin to blend hillbilly moonshine with a double-shot of blues power, but his white lightning concoction exploded. Dangerous as a switchblade in the hands  …