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Reccomend me some good Blues Rock.
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Some good choices listed so far.
Robin Trower
Rory Gallagher
Gary Moore
early Foghat
Pat Travers Band
Mahogany Rush
Humble Pie
Jonny Lang
Eric Clapton (his new album will be blues too)
Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers
Glenn Pavone & The Cyclones
The Powder Blues Band
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Roy Buchanan
Savoy Brown
ZZ Top
John Mayall's Blues Breakers
The Blues Brothers
Johnny Winter
early Fleetwood Mac
Point Blank like this one
Robin Trower
Rory Gallagher
Gary Moore
early Foghat
Pat Travers Band
Mahogany Rush
Humble Pie
Jonny Lang
Eric Clapton (his new album will be blues too)
Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers
Glenn Pavone & The Cyclones
The Powder Blues Band
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Roy Buchanan
Savoy Brown
ZZ Top
John Mayall's Blues Breakers
The Blues Brothers
Johnny Winter
early Fleetwood Mac
Point Blank like this one
MULE!!
Warren is the man. <----period
AMEN!!!
They are probably the most underrated band touring today, especially considering their level of musicianship. They played in my neck of the woods this summer and were amazing! I have the download of that show so I'm not just going off of memory. I would've loved to seen them at Red Rocks!!!
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Gov't Mule
Rory Gallagher
Led Zeppelin (?)
ZZ Top
Johnny Winter
Peter Frampton (?)
Canned Heat
Cream
Jimi Hendrix (?)
Gov't Mule
Rory Gallagher
Led Zeppelin (?)
ZZ Top
Johnny Winter
Peter Frampton (?)
Canned Heat
Cream
Jimi Hendrix (?)
Good 'ol Kentucky band!!
I also second the Derek Trucks Band. They are great!
And I third it....DTB is excellent....Todd Smalley is an in the pocket guy as a bassist, too and a great guy as he does demos for schools on the value of music in education.
Others to consider: Robben Ford Band (various incarnations)
Check out the Robin Trower/Jack Bruce concert DVD on youtube.
Bonamassa is of course huge.
Alvin Lee
Jeff Beck (along with Tal Wilkenfeld of course).
Johnny Winter
I'm a big fan of Sonny Landreth, tho many may consider that Cajun Blues.
Guitar Shorty is pretty cool
Robert Cray?
Blues/Rock is a pretty fuzzy line to me.
Bonnie Raitt (Luck of the Draw, Nick of Time, Road Tested, Silver Lining, Souls Alike)
Doyle Bramhall Sr
Buddy Guy
Indigenous
Hendrix' Blues album
Jonny Lang
Blues Pop would be Keb Mo'
Hey...how about Lonnie Mack! Attack of the Killer V....Love that! Lonnie may be one of the earliest Blues/Rock guys. Check out also Strike Like Lightning.
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There are a lot of obvious choices here...maybe the OP wants something more obscure
The Entrance Band - closest thing to hendrix...since hendrix
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check out MLK and Grim Reaper Blues (pt. 2) off their self titled album.
Bailiff - Chicago Blues/roots influenced band...starting to become noticed a lot...
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check out out of bounds and what I was off their myspace
The Entrance Band - closest thing to hendrix...since hendrix
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check out MLK and Grim Reaper Blues (pt. 2) off their self titled album.
Bailiff - Chicago Blues/roots influenced band...starting to become noticed a lot...
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check out out of bounds and what I was off their myspace
Steppenwolf did a mighty fine job doing their brand of blues-rock. I also ain't talking about their handful of top 40 hits, but the killer stuff you never ever heard on the radio, except maybe back in the old fm rock station days, around midnight when the D.J. had a few quick pipe hits in the parking lot by the dumpster on his break and came back on the air feeling fine.
I just picked up some Robin Trower on vinyl a few weeks ago.
Also I have always loved Pride & Glory. Power trio southern rock with Zakk Wylde and James Lomenzo. It's Zakk before he went all biker-tough-guy, and James shreds the entire time.
Also I have always loved Pride & Glory. Power trio southern rock with Zakk Wylde and James Lomenzo. It's Zakk before he went all biker-tough-guy, and James shreds the entire time.
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I don't know whether anyone's mentioned it yet, but I recommend the 1968 album "Super Session" by Al Kooper, with Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills each playing guitar on half of the cuts. Bloomfield's playing here is still some of the greatest blues guitar ever, not in the SRV macho, Texas style, but in the B.B. King mold-- very melodic, with incredible phrasing and a jazz influence. Very tasty.
The previously mentioned "London Howlin' Wolf Sessions" from 1971 is cool... Wolf was old and sick by then, but the English guys, including Clapton, Winwood, Wyman and Watts, play like genuine bluesmen, and Clapton is particularly fantastic. (It was recorded in 1970 at the height of the Derek and the Dominos period, when he was on fire.)
Leslie West's first album, "Mountain", from 1969 (I think) is interesting. He plays guitar with a great feel, and the music is bluesier than on the subsequent albums when Mountain became the name of the band.
The J. Geils Band's "The Morning After" from 1971 (I think) is blues rock with a bit more gritty rock and roll and R&B mixed in. Rock-solid rhythm section, too.
The Allman Brothers Band's "At Fillmore East", from 1971, is a true classic. On it you'll hear a lot more than blues and rock, but everything is astounding. In my humble opinion, Duane Allman (slide guitar, lead guitar) was the most gifted improviser, on any instrument, during that entire era. A genius. The way the whole band plays like one being is unlike anything else I've heard.
Finally, find something by Canned Heat. They were a late '60s band, sort of rock guys who were hard core blues devotees. They largely played John Lee Hooker style stuff. Larry "The Mole" Taylor is a bass player who should not be missed.
The previously mentioned "London Howlin' Wolf Sessions" from 1971 is cool... Wolf was old and sick by then, but the English guys, including Clapton, Winwood, Wyman and Watts, play like genuine bluesmen, and Clapton is particularly fantastic. (It was recorded in 1970 at the height of the Derek and the Dominos period, when he was on fire.)
Leslie West's first album, "Mountain", from 1969 (I think) is interesting. He plays guitar with a great feel, and the music is bluesier than on the subsequent albums when Mountain became the name of the band.
The J. Geils Band's "The Morning After" from 1971 (I think) is blues rock with a bit more gritty rock and roll and R&B mixed in. Rock-solid rhythm section, too.
The Allman Brothers Band's "At Fillmore East", from 1971, is a true classic. On it you'll hear a lot more than blues and rock, but everything is astounding. In my humble opinion, Duane Allman (slide guitar, lead guitar) was the most gifted improviser, on any instrument, during that entire era. A genius. The way the whole band plays like one being is unlike anything else I've heard.
Finally, find something by Canned Heat. They were a late '60s band, sort of rock guys who were hard core blues devotees. They largely played John Lee Hooker style stuff. Larry "The Mole" Taylor is a bass player who should not be missed.
