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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

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

See also

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