Line #35 Main/BluesRock


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2	Primary Stylistic Influences:
3	+ RockAndRoll, {{Blues}} (especially Electric Blues)
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6	Secondary Stylistic Influences:
7	+ UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, some later bands were influenced by {{Jazz}} and PsychedelicRock
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10	Blues rock is a separate genre of {{Blues}} music that appeared in TheSixties in the UK and the USA, though largely created by British bands. Blues-rock is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin basically a hybrid between 12-bar blues and rock]], with frequent use of {{Improv}} and jamming and an overall heavier sound. The style eventually evolved into HardRock, which is basically heavier Blues rock at its core.
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12	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 up, bashing the hell out of their drums and worshipping the almighty EpicRiff, bands such as John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Music/TheYardbirds, Music/{{Cream}}, Music/LedZeppelin and the UK-based Music/JimiHendrix decisively established blues-rock as a genre in its own right.
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14	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, Music/BadCompany, Status Quo, Music/ZZTop and Foghat. Another offshoot, based in the American South and referred to as SouthernRock, combined blues rock with CountryMusic, GospelMusic and {{Rockabilly}} (and occasionally {{Jazz}}, FolkMusic or even Cajun influences), also became popular in TheSeventies.
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16	Thanks to its emphasis on volume and {{Epic Riff}}s, blues-rock became one of the key influences on the development of 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).
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18	Not to be confused with PsychedelicRock, with which it is very often confused and crossed with, especially by modern stoner rock acts.
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20	Blues-rock bands:
21	[[index]]
22	* Music/AlexisKorner (who might even be an UrExample. He's often referred to as "the founding father of British Blues")
23	* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand
24	* Music/TheAnimals
25	* Music/AshtonGardnerAndDyke
26	* Music/BadCompany
27	* Music/JeffBeck
28	* Joe Bonnamassa and Beth Hart
29	** 2014 - ''Music/{{Live in Amsterdam\|2014}}''
30	* Big Brother And The Holding Company.
31	** 1968 - ''Music/CheapThrills''
32	* Music/TheBlackCrowes
33	* Music/TheBlackKeys (a rare modern example)
34	* Music/BlodwynPig
35	* Music/BlueCheer
36	* Music/BluesProject
37	* Music/BluesTraveler (another modern-ish example, and a JamBand to boot)
38	* Music/JakeBugg
39	* Music/{{Cactus}}
40	* Music/CannedHeat
41	* Music/CaptainBeefheart
42	** 1967 - ''Music/SafeAsMilk''
43	** 1968 - ''Music/StrictlyPersonal''
44	** 1972 - ''Music/ClearSpot''
45	** 1974 - ''Music/UnconditionallyGuaranteed''
46	** 1974 - ''Music/BluejeansAndMoonbeams''
47	** 1975 - ''Music/BongoFury'' (with Frank Zappa)
48	** 1982 - ''Music/IceCreamForCrow''
49	* Music/ChickenShack
50	* Music/{{Chickenfoot}}
51	* Music/EricClapton
52	** 1994 - ''Music/FromTheCradle''
53	* Music/JoeCocker
54	** 1968 - ''Music/WithALittleHelpFromMyFriends''
55	** 1970 - ''Film/MadDogsAndEnglishmen''
56	* Music/{{Cream}}
57	** 1967 - ''Music/DisraeliGears''
58	* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival
59	** 1968 - ''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevivalAlbum''
60	** 1969 - ''Music/BayouCountry''
61	** 1969 - ''Music/GreenRiverAlbum''
62	** 1969 - ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys''
63	** 1970 - ''Music/CosmosFactory''
64	** 1970 - ''Music/{{Pendulum\|CreedenceClearwaterRevivalAlbum}}''
65	** 1972 - ''Music/MardiGras''
66	* Music/TheDeadWeather
67	* Music/DeepJimiandtheZepCreams
68	* Music/DerekAndTheDominos
69	** 1970 - ''Music/LaylaAndOtherAssortedLoveSongs''
70	* Music/{{DOROTHY}} (also mixes in some [[HardRock hard rock]] traits)
71	* Music/TheDoors (also played psychedelic rock)
72	** 1967 - ''[[Music/TheDoorsAlbum The Doors]]''
73	** 1967 - ''Music/StrangeDays''
74	** 1971 - ''Music/LAWoman''
75	* Downliners Sect
76	* Music/JonEnglish
77	* Music/TheFabulousThunderbirds
78	* Music/{{Faces}} (but not Music/TheSmallFaces); frontman Music/RodStewart's concurrent solo albums also leaned a bit in this direction (though he moved away from it after a while)
79	* Music/FleetwoodMac (early on when Peter Green was in the band)
80	* Music/{{Foghat}}
81	* Music/{{Free\|Band}}
82	* Music/GeorgeThorogoodAndTheDestroyers
83	* [[Music/GovtMule Gov't Mule]]
84	* Music/GrahamBondOrganization
85	* Music/GretaVanFleet
86	* Music/FerreGrignard
87	* Music/TheGroundhogs -- also ProgressiveRock and PsychedelicRock
88	* Music/TheGuessWho
89	* Music/JohnHammondJr
90	* Music/HeadMachine
91	* Music/TheHeavy
92	* Music/HotTuna
93	* Music/GlennHughes
94	* Music/HumblePie
95	* Music/TheJamesGang
96	* Music/JanisJoplin
97	* Music/TheJeffBeckGroup
98	* Music/JethroTull (but only on their first album)
99	* [[Music/JimiHendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]
100	** 1967 - ''Music/AreYouExperienced''
101	** 1967 - ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove''
102	** 1968 - ''Music/ElectricLadyland''
103	** 1970 - ''Music/BandOfGypsys''
104	* Music/EricJohnson
105	* Music/JohnMayallsBluesbreakers
106	* Music/JohnnyWinterAndEdgarWinter
107	* Music/JonSpencerBluesExplosion
108	* Music/{{KALEO}}
109	* Music/LedZeppelin (Also one of the premier HardRock bands. Considered very influential in the HeavyMetal scene, although they are generally not considered to be a metal band themselves)
110	** 1969 - ''Music/LedZeppelin1969''
111	** 1969 - ''Music/LedZeppelinII''
112	** 1970 - ''Music/LedZeppelinIII''
113	** 1971 - ''Music/LedZeppelinIV''
114	** 1973 - ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly''
115	** 1975 - ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti''
116	** 1976 - ''Film/TheSongRemainsTheSame''
117	* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd
118	* Music/MdouMoctar
119	* Music/{{Morphine}}
120	* Music/{{Mountain}}
121	* Music/ThePaulButterfieldBluesBand
122	* Music/TomPetty
123	* Music/ThePrettyThings
124	* Music/RadioMoscow
125	* Music/GerryRafferty
126	* Music/BonnieRaitt
127	** 1972 - ''Music/GiveItUp''
128	* Music/ResurrectionBand (a rare ChristianRock example. They also dabbled in HardRock, HeavyMetal, and even {{New Wave\|Music}})
129	* Music/RivalSons
130	* Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}
131	** 1964 - ''Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|1964}}''
132	** 1965 - ''Music/TheRollingStonesNo2''
133	** 1965 - ''Music/OutOfOurHeads''
134	** 1966 - ''Music/AftermathAlbum''
135	** 1967 - ''Music/BetweenTheButtons''
136	** 1967 - ''Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest''
137	** 1968 - ''Music/BeggarsBanquet''
138	** 1969 - ''Music/LetItBleed''
139	** 1971 - ''Music/StickyFingers''
140	** 1972 - ''Music/ExileOnMainSt.''
141	** 1973 - ''Music/GoatsHeadSoup''
142	** 1974 - ''Music/ItsOnlyRockNRoll''
143	** 1976 - ''Music/BlackAndBlue''
144	** 1978 - ''Music/SomeGirls''
145	** 1980 - ''Music/EmotionalRescue''
146	** 1981 - ''Music/TattooYou''
147	** 1983 - ''Music/{{Undercover}}''
148	** 1986 - ''Music/DirtyWork''
149	** 1989 - ''Music/SteelWheels''
150	** 1994 - ''Music/VoodooLounge''
151	** 1997 - ''Music/BridgesToBabylon''
152	** 2005 - ''Music/ABiggerBang''
153	* Music/RoryGallagher
154	* Music/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}
155	* Music/{{Santana}}
156	** 1970 - ''Music/{{Abraxas\|Album}}''
157	** 2002 - ''Music/{{Shaman}}''
158	* Music/RoyalBlood (rare modern example)
159	* Music/SavoyBrown
160	* Music/{{Slash\|Musician}}
161	* Music/StatusQuo
162	* Music/{{Steppenwolf}}
163	* Music/SteveMillerBand
164	* Music/StevieRayVaughan
165	* Music/JamesTaylor
166	* Music/TenYearsAfter
167	* Music/{{Them}} (Music/VanMorrison's first group)
168	* Music/TrophyScars
169	* Music/VanHalen (while never their main style, they did consistently put out songs in this genre during the Roth years. For instance, "Ice Cream Man", "The Full Bug", and "Take Your Whiskey Home")
170	* Music/VanillaFudge
171	* Music/ZZWard
172	* Music/JackWhite
173	* Music/TheWhiteStripes (well, some of the time, anyways)
174	** 2001 - ''Music/WhiteBloodCells''
175	** 2003 - ''Music/{{Elephant\|Album}}''
176	* Music/{{Whitesnake}}
177	* Music/GinWigmore
178	* Music/DennisWilson
179	** 1977 - ''Music/PacificOceanBlue''
180	* Music/TheWineryDogs
181	* Music/{{Witchcult}}
182	* Music/{{Wolfmother}} (Also Stoner Rock)
183	* Music/TheYardbirds (arguably the TropeCodifier)
184	** 1964 - ''Music/FiveLiveYardbirds''
185	** 1965 - ''Music/ForYourLove''
186	** 1965 - ''Music/HavingARaveUp''
187	** 1966 - ''Music/RogerTheEngineer''
188	** 1967 - ''Music/LittleGames''
189	* Music/FrankZappa (in a genre roulette with chamber music, jazz fusion and progressive rock)
190	* Music/ZZTop
191	** 1983 - ''Music/{{Eliminator\|ZZTopAlbum}}''

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