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** ''Music/CheapThrills'' (1968)

* Music/TheAnimals (early albums only)

* The Music/JimiHendrix Experience

* Music/TheWho
* Music/TheYardbirds

Thanks to its emphasis on volume and {{Epic Riff}}s, blues-rock became one of the key influences on the development of Music/HeavyMetal, with many blues-rock acts being considered to this day to be 'proto-metal' (especially the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin and The Yardbirds).

* Music/EricClapton Derek and the Dominos]]
** Music/EricClapton period.

* Music/Foghat

* Music/Rumpelstiltskin

* Music/Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

* John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
* The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
* Graham Bond Organization
* John Hammond, Jr.
* Alexis Korner (who might even be an UrExample. He's often referred to as "the founding father of British Blues")
* Canned Heat
* Ten Years After
* Music/JanisJoplin
* Free
** Bad Company
* Humble Pie
* Status Quo
* Savoy Brown
* Foghat
* Music/{{Faces}} (but not Music/TheSmallFaces)
* Them (Music/VanMorrison's first group)
* The Animals (early albums only)

* Music/TheYardbirds
* Music/LedZeppelin

* The Music/JimiHendrix Experience
* Music/TheRollingStones
* Music/{{Santana}}

* George Thorogood & the Destroyers (the band that did "Bad To the Bone")
* The James Gang
* The Groundhogs (combined with PsychedelicRock)
* Blind Faith
* [[Music/EricClapton Derek and the Dominos]]
** Music/EricClapton period.
* The Jeff Beck Group
* Music/TheWho
* Chicken Shack
* Hot Tuna
* Blues Project
* Blodwyn Pig

* Rory Gallagher
* Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
* The Fabulous Thunderbirds
* Gov't Mule
* The Black Crowes

* BlueCheer
* The Rival Sons
* Radio Moscow
* Wolfmother
* Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
* Mountain
* Buffalo
* Head Machine
* Deep Jimi and the Zep Creams
* Johnny Winter & Edgar Winter
* Cactus
* The Guess Who
** Bachman Turner Overdrive
* Rumpelstiltskin
* Captain Beyond
* Vanilla Fudge
* Witchcult
* Music/{{Danzig}} (Can also be considered doom metal)

* Music/TheDoors (also played the often-confused-with psychedelic rock)

During TheSeventies, a subgenre known as Boogie Rock, which emphasized the repetitive, driving "boogie" rhythms rather than extended improvisation or solos, became popular. This subgenre is best represented by artists like George Thorogood, Cactus, Bad Company, Status Quo, Music/ZZTop and Foghat. Another offshoot, based in the American South and referred to as SouthernRock, combined BlueRock with CountryMusic, Gospel and Rockabilly (and occasionally Jazz, Folk or even Cajun influences), also became popular in TheSeventies.

* Faces (but not the Small Faces)
* Them (Van Morrison's first group)

* TheWhiteStripes (well, some of the time, anyways)

* John Spencer Blues Explosion

* Danzig (Can also be considered doom metal)

* Music/TheDoors (they also play psychadelic rock, depending on the song)

* Music/TheDoors (overlaps with psychadelic rock)

* Music/ZZTop

** EricClapton period.

Thanks to its emphasis on volume and {{Epic Riff}}s, blues-rock became one of the key influences on the development of Music/HeavyMetal, with many blues-rock acts being consider to this day to be 'proto-metal.'

* Danzig (Can also be considered doom metal)

* Stevie Ray Vaughan

Thanks to its emphasis on volume and {{Epic Riff}}s, blues-rock became one of the key influences on the development of Music/HeavyMetal.

* The Groundhogs (combined with PschedelicRock)

* TheWhiteStripes (well, some of the time, anyways)

* Music/TheWho

* Music/FleetwoodMac

While arguably the genre's specific guitar style was invented by Lonnie Mack with his 1963 single "Memphis", this discovery went unnoticed at the time. The genre itself basically came about when the British became exposed to {{Blues}} imported from the USA and started their own bands. These bands quickly gained the edge in one area traditional {{Blues}} music lacked: volume. By cranking their amps UpToEleven, bashing the hell out of their drums and worshipping the almighty EpicRiff, bands such as John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, {{Cream}}, LedZeppelin and the UK-based JimiHendrix decisively established blues-rock as a genre in its own right.

* TheBlackKeys
* TheYardbirds
* LedZeppelin
* {{Cream}}
* The JimiHendrix Experience
* TheRollingStones
* FleetwoodMac

* [[EricClapton Derek and the Dominos]]

* TheWho

* The Yardbirds