List of blues-rock performers

List of blues-rock performers

Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre which developed in the 1960s, which combines elements of blues music—12-bar blues, extended boogie jams and a heavy, riff-oriented sound and feel—with the loud, overdriven electric guitar-driven sound of rock and roll. Blues-rock bands often emphasize lead guitar solos and blues-style improvisation.

Groups that incorporate substantial blues-rock elements into their music often blend the style with other related rock or blues styles. In the late 1960s, bands often blended blues-rock with psychedelic rock and acid rock (e.g., Jimi Hendrix). In the 1970s and 1980s a number of bands mixed in other elements, such as Southern rock (e.g.,Lynyrd Skynyrd) and Texas blues (e.g., Stevie Ray Vaughan). In the late 1980s, several groups blended blues rock with hard rock and the then-popular heavy metal style of Glam metal (e.g., the English band Whitesnake). In the 2000s, musicians introduced new elements to blues rock, such as the alternative rock and punk blues infusions of The White Stripes.

Notable blues-rock-oriented groups, listed according to the decade when they began incorporating a blues-rock style, include:

1960s

*Allman Brothers Band:Southern rock, blues-rock, jam, instrumental rock, hard rock
*The Animals: Blues-rock, rock, psychedelic rock
*Jeff Beck Group: Blues-rock, hard rock, heavy metal
*Mike Bloomfield: Blues, blues-rock
*Canned Heat: Blues, blues-rock, rock 'n' roll
*Eric Clapton: Blues, blues-rock
*Cream: Hard rock, blues-rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, heavy metal
*The Doors: Rock, hard rock, blues-rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock
*Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era in the late 1960s)
*Lonnie Mack: Blues-rock, blues, country, southern rock, rockabilly, bluegrass and gospel
*Free: Rock, blues-rock, hard rock
*Rory Gallagher: Blues, rock, blues-rock, electric blues
* Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother and the Holding Company: Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Acid Rock, Psychedelic Rock, boogie Rock
*Jimi Hendrix: Hard rock, blues-rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock
*John Mayall: Blues-rock, harmonica blues, British blues, electric blues
*Led Zeppelin: Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, folk rock
*The Rolling Stones: Blues-rock, R&B, rock and roll
*Status Quo: hard rock band whose music is characterised by a strong boogie line.
*Ten Years After: Blues-rock, British blues, hard Rock
*Robin Trower: Rock, blues, blues-rock (from the UK)
*Johnny Winter:Electric blues, blues-rock, rock and roll, Texas blues
*The Yardbirds: Blues-rock, British Invasion, rhythm and blues, British blues, psychedelic rock, hard rock

1970s-1980s

*AC/DC: Rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, hard rock (from Syndney, Australia)
*Aerosmith: Hard rock, blues-rock, heavy metal (from Boston, US)
*Alto Reed: Rock, blues-rock and jazz saxophonist (from US)
*Bad Company: Hard Rock, blues rock (from England)
*Corey Stevens: Electric blues, Blues Rock
*Derek and the Dominos: Blues, blues-rock (from England)
*Dżem: blues-rock band (from Poland)
*Foghat: Blues-rock, hard rock (from UK)
*The Hamsters: Blues rock, rock, Delta blues (from UK)
*Gary Moore: Hard rock, heavy metal, rock, blues-rock, blues (from Northern Ireland, UK)
*Lynyrd Skynyrd: Southern rock, hard rock, blues-rock (from US)
*George Thorogood: Blues, blues-rock, rock and roll(from US)
*Stevie Ray Vaughan: Electric blues, blues-rock, Texas blues (from US)
*Joe Walsh: Rock, blues rock (from US)
*David Wilcox: blues rock (from Canada)
*Whitesnake: Hard rock, blues-rock, heavy metal (North Yorkshire, England)
*ZZ Top: Rock, blues-rock, hard rock (from US)

1990s-2000s

*The Answer: Hard rock, blues rock (from Ireland)
*The Black Crowes: Hard rock, blues-rock (from the US)
*The Black Keys:Blues-rock, garage rock, hard rock (from the US)
*Joe Bonamassa: Blues, rock and roll, blues-rock, rock, jazz, country, Delta blues, and electric blues (from the US)
*Sheryl Crow: Rock, country, pop rock, blues-rock, and folk (from the US)
*Taylor Hicks: Blue-eyed soul, blues, blues rock (from the US)
*The Raconteurs: Alternative rock, blues rock, hard rock (from the US)
*PJ Harvey: Alternative rock, heavy blues, post-punk (from England)
*Eric Sardinas: Blues, blues-rock (from Florida, US)
*The White Stripes: Alternative rock, garage rock revival, punk blues, blues rock (from the US)
*Joss Stone: Blues-rock, Soul, R&B, pop-rock (from England)
*John Mayer: Blues, blues-rock, Acoustic rock/pop, often with extended guitar solos by Mayer(from the US)
*Derek Trucks Band: Blues rock, rock, Southern rock (from the US)
*Five Horse Johnson: Stoner rock, heavy metal, blues rock (from the US)
*Gov't Mule: Southern rock, rock, blues rock-influenced jam band (from the US)


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