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Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. [3] It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, drums, and sometimes with keyboards and harmonica).
[9] Blues standards that appeared on the main charts [b] in the 1960s and 1970s often had been recorded by rhythm and blues, soul, and rock musicians. [10] Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.
Blues Blues Blues is an album credited to the Jimmy Rogers All-Stars. [1] [2] It was released in January 1999, just over a year after Jimmy Rogers's death. [3] The album peaked at No. 1 on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart. [4] Mick Jagger, one of the album's many featured musicians, considered Rogers to be the originator of electric blues. [5]
On November 11, 1937, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson recorded "Early in the Morning" for Bluebird Records. [5] The song is a medium-tempo twelve-bar blues that features Williamson's vocal and harmonica accompanied by Robert Lee McCoy (later known as Robert Nighthawk ) and Henry Townsend on guitars. [ 6 ]
In the 1980s and 1990s, blues rock was more roots-oriented than in the 1960s and 1970s, even when artists such as the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan flirted with rock stardom. [1] Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name, and groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the", "a" or "an").
John Arthur Lee (May 24, 1915 [1] – October 11, 1977) [2] was an American country blues guitarist, pianist, singer and songwriter. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] He recorded two singles released by Federal in 1952 and, despite a period of 13 years away from music, Lee was 'rediscovered' and recorded an album released on Rounder in 1974.
Green Day played Dookie as well as American Idiot in full during the recent North American leg of their Saviors tour, which will resume Jan. 19 in Johannesburg. Here are the formats for Dookie ...
"Sugar Mama" or "Sugar Mama Blues" is a blues standard. [1] Called a "tautly powerful slow blues" by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, [2] it has been recorded by numerous artists, including early Chicago bluesmen Tampa Red, Sonny Boy Williamson I, and Tommy McClennan.