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*[[The Answer (band)|The Answer]]: Hard rock, blues rock (from Ireland) |
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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.,The Allman Brothers Band and then 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
- The 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
- Paul Butterfield: Blues, blues-rock
- Canned Heat: Blues, blues-rock, rock 'n' roll
- Captain Beefheart: Blues Rock, Experimental Rock
- 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
- Jethro Tull: Blues-rock, folk rock, progressive rock
- 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
- Savoy Brown: Blues, blues-rock
- 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: Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, rock and roll (from Sydney, Australia)
- Aerosmith: Hard rock, blues-rock, heavy metal (from Boston, US)
- Bad Company: Hard Rock, blues rock (from England)
- Derek and the Dominos: Blues, blues-rock (from England)
- Foghat: Blues-rock, hard rock (from UK)
- The Hamsters: Blues rock, rock, Delta blues (from UK)
- B.B.King: Blues (from US)
- Gary Moore: Hard rock, heavy metal, rock, blues-rock, blues (from Northern Ireland, UK)
- Mountain: Hard rock, blues-rock (US/Canada)
- Alto Reed: Rock, blues-rock and jazz saxophonist (from US)
- Bobby Tench: Blues rock, Electric blues (Freddie King)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: Southern rock, hard rock, blues-rock (from US)
- George Thorogood: Blues, blues-rock, rock and roll(from US)
- Slash (musician): Blues,blues-rock, hard rock, metal, blues style (from UK)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan: Electric blues, blues-rock, Texas blues (from US)
- Joe Walsh: Rock, blues rock (from US)
- Whitesnake: Hard rock, blues-rock, heavy metal (North Yorkshire, England)
- David Wilcox: blues rock (from Canada)
- ZZ Top: Rock, blues-rock, hard rock (from US)
1990s-2000s
- Arc Angels: blues rock, Texas blues, from Austin Texas
- Back Door Slam: Davy Knowles' band, blues rock(from the UK)
- Bernard Allison: blues rock, hard rock, Chicago blues (from the US)
- The Answer: Hard rock, blues rock (from Ireland)
- Grainne Duffy: 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)
- Rose Hill Drive:Blues-rock, garage rock, hard rock (from the US)
- Joe Bonamassa: Electric Blues, rock and roll, blues-rock, rock, jazz, Delta blues, and electric blues (from the US)
- Popa Chubby: blues rock, hard rock (from the US)
- Chris Cobb: blues rock, electric blues, Chicago blues (from the US)
- Sheryl Crow: Rock, country, pop rock, blues-rock, and folk (from the US)
- Chris Duarte: Southern rock, Texas blues, blues rock, hard rock (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)
- Eric Sardinas: Blues, blues-rock (from Florida, US)
- The White Stripes: Alternative rock, garage rock revival, punk blues, blues rock (from the US)
- John Mayer: Blues, blues-rock, Acoustic rock/pop (from the US)
- Larry Miller: blues rock, hard rock (from UK)
- Aynsley Lister: Blues rock, rock (from the UK)
- Derek Trucks Band: Blues rock, rock, Southern rock (from the US)
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: blues rock, hard rock, Delta blues, Chicago Blues (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)
- Alicia Keys: Soul, neo soul, traditional R&B, blues, blues rock (since her 2007 album As I Am) (from the US)
- North Mississippi Allstars: blues-rock, jam band