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4 days ago · Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
1 day ago · Credit: Rob Blackham. Elles Bailey has spent a decade percolating her sultry mix of blues, roots, rock and Americana. We talk to the multi-award-winning Bristol-born singer as she prepares to take ...
16 hours ago · Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in London in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Green. [6] Green recruited drummer Mick Fleetwood, guitarist and singer Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning, with John McVie replacing Brunning a few weeks after the band's first public appearance at the 1967 National Jazz & Blues Festival ...
2 days ago · Blues rock bands from the southern states, like the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and ZZ Top, incorporated country elements into their style to produce the distinctive genre Southern rock. [100] Early blues rock bands often emulated jazz, playing long, involved improvisations, which would later be a major element of progressive rock.
5 days ago · Jimi Hendrix, American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar. His best-known songs included ‘Purple Haze’ and ‘The Wind Cries Mary.’
3 days ago · A tribute to B.B. King, the legendary guitarist, who forever transformed the blues and American music with his innovative approach.
4 days ago · Janis Joplin (born January 19, 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.—died October 4, 1970, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer, the premier white female blues vocalist of the 1960s, who dazzled listeners with her fierce and uninhibited musical style.
