Robben Ford’s style is highly individual. No-one plays quite like him, despite the fact that he has influenced much of the current crop of great blues guitarists. Unlike many blues players, Ford is ...

Robben Ford knew all there was to know about the blues pentonic scale before he was 20 years old. Anthology: The Early Years catalogs a pre-Yellowjackets, pre-Miles Davis, teenaged Robben Ford. This ...

After high school, Robben and his brothers Patrick (a blues drummer) and Mark (a blues harmonica player) formed The Charles Ford Band (named after their father), and recorded for the Arhoolie label.

Stumbling across the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album at Hayes Music in Ukiah forever changed the lives of Pat and Robben Ford, two teenagers growing up far from blues clubs and big-city ways. ...