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British blues

British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, blues developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar, and made international stars of several proponents of the genre, including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

For the British Blue cat, see British Shorthair.

British blues

Mid-twentieth-century United Kingdom

  • British acoustic blues
  • British electric blues

Significance[edit]

Beside giving a start to many important blues, pop and rock musicians, in spawning blues rock British blues also ultimately gave rise to a host of subgenres of rock, including particularly psychedelic rock, progressive rock,[24] hard rock and ultimately heavy metal.[47] Perhaps the most important contribution of British blues was the surprising re-exportation of American blues back to America, where, in the wake of the success of bands like the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, white audiences began to look again at black blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker, who suddenly began to appeal to middle class white Americans.[47] The result was a re-evaluation of the blues in America which enabled white Americans much more easily to become blues musicians, opening the door to Southern rock and the development of Texas blues musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughan.[4]

List of British blues musicians

Bane, M., (1982) White Boy Singin' the Blues, London: Penguin, 1982,  0-14-006045-6.

ISBN

Blues: The British Connection, Helter Skelter Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 1-900924-41-2 - First edition 1986 - Second edition 1995 Blues in Britain

Bob Brunning

The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, Omnibus Press London, 1990 and 1998, ISBN 0-7119-6907-8

Bob Brunning

Martin Celmins, - Founder of Fleetwood Mac, Sanctuary London, 1995, foreword by B.B.King, ISBN 1-86074-233-5

Peter Green

Fancourt, L., (1989) British blues on record (1957–1970), Retrack Books.

The safest place in the world: A personal history of British Rhythm and blues, 1989 Quartet Books Limited, ISBN 0-7043-2696-5 - Second Edition : Blowing The Blues - Fifty Years Playing The British Blues, 2004, Clear Books, ISBN 1-904555-04-7

Dick Heckstall-Smith

Christopher Hjort, Strange brew: and the British blues boom, 1965-1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007, ISBN 1-906002-00-2

Eric Clapton

Paul Myers, and the Birth of the British Blues, Vancouver 2007, GreyStone Books, ISBN 1-55365-200-2

Long John Baldry

Harry Shapiro : The Biography, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 1997, Discography by Mark Troster, ISBN 0-7475-3163-3

Alexis Korner

Schwartz, R. F., (2007) How Britain got the blues : The transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom Ashgate,  0-7546-5580-6.

ISBN

The Blue Horizon story 1965-1970 vol.1, notes of the booklet of the Box Set (60 pages)

Mike Vernon

British Blues Awards