Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ricky Byrd pays tribute to his guitar hero Jeff Beck in a new single “Rhapsody In Blues (One for Jeff)”
Guitarist and Singer-songwriter Ricky Byrd who was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in inducted in 2015 with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts has released a new single instrumental single “Rhapsody In Blues (One for Jeff)” to pay a tribute to his guitar hero Jeff Beck who passed away in 2023 due to illness.
Byrd’s new single “Rhapsody In Blues (One for Jeff)” follows the release of his recent digital/7″ singles “Louanne”, “Alien” and “Glamdemic Blues”, which featured a B-side cover of the Four Tops’ classic “Reach Out (I’ll Be There).
The only way I felt I could properly pay tribute to Jeff Beck, whose playing has inspired me my whole life, was to record this track dedicated to him. This is a track I felt I needed to write. I did it as a thank you to Jeff. He was such an important part of the process for me as a guitar player.
First as a teenager discovering all this cool new music I was soaking up, trying to learn a riff here and there (the easy ones), to all these many years later where I’m still in awe of where he took guitar playing. And yes I’m still trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to nick one of his riffs. Thanks again Guv’nor.
Ricky Byrd
The song honors the legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, who played with the Yardbirds and was once named one of the top 5 guitarists of all-time by Rolling Stone. Jeff was a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – first with The Yardbirds in 1992 and later as a solo artist in 2009, before he passed he had with Johnny Depp in the Fall off 2022 and made a stop at UPAC in Kingston. Revisit the performance here.
“Rhapsody In Blues (One for Jeff)” is available to stream everywhere. For more information about Byrd, visit here.
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