He was a helluva blues rock singer in the 1960s before he became a bloated caricature of himself in later years.
Another low-fi blues rock band with a singer who sounded a bit like Janis Joplin and a rhythm section inspired by the White Stripes.
When Obama visited Hollywood in September 2011, he was reduced to appearing at an event hosted by a sitcom actor at the House of Blues rock club.
Blues rock artist George Thorogood blasted from the stereo.
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In 1968, he met and became friends with the blues-rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield, whose early work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band blazed the trail for Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and other white musicians who took the blues to great commercial heights.
The band is from Cincinnati and it started out playing gritty blues influenced rock.
The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio was a recording mecca for rhythm and blues, rock and pop artists in the '60s and '70s.
It doesn't matter if it's traditional jazz, blues or rock 'n' roll.
The eclectic mix of blues-rock and psychedelic-funk tracks includes "Mojo Man" which opens with a big Ronettes beat before lurching into a Memphis horn grind.
He went through changes that ranged from imitating Nat Cole and Charles Brown to finding his own voice in jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, country, pop and soul.
After relocating from their native Kentucky to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1997, the twins joined blues-rock act Slydell as backup singers and began to collaborate with other musicians, including Lewis.
The migrants brought the blues and gave birth to jazz, rock, rhythm and blues and hip-hop.
In the 1970s, musicians began mixing flamenco with jazz, rock, blues, rap and other genres.
We salute his unparalleled contribution to Blues, Jazz and Rock culture in Europe, and will miss him greatly.
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The program focuses on popular music styles that most students already listen to, including rock, blues, rap and hip-hop.
The group's latest album, ReCreations, continues this international trajectory, and includes collaborators as varied as French actor Vincent Cassel, neo-soul singer Bilal and rock-blues singer-guitarist G.
Langhorne Slim and his band The War Eagles mix folk and blues with reckless punk-rock energy.
His latest record, The Open Road, abounds with the driving, blues-inflected garage-rock he's been honing throughout his career.
Mr. MONROE: Today's youth commonly express the blues through music like rap and rock.
He blends rock, folk, blues and classically influenced music into a boundary-defying style that has won him a devoted following all over the world.
The building was once Chess Records, the seminal electric blues label that paved the way for rock 'n' roll.
Mr. MONROE: Are you familiar with the role the blues has played in the development of rock 'n' roll?
American blues has held a fascination for British rock bands ever since Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Eric Clapton heard their first Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf records.
Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues and folk genres also incorporated rockabilly, reggae, soul and funk among other influences, it adds.
Led Zeppelin will be celebrated for transforming the sound of rock and roll and influencing other artists with blues-infused hits such as Stairway to Heaven.
Lord was influenced by classical, blues and jazz but played his Hammond organ with a rock attitude and helped Deep Purple become pioneers of progressive and heavy rock.
At the time of the tour, Dylan had already recorded an album, half electric and half acoustic, called Bringing It All Back Home, and had released a rock and roll single called "Subterranean Homesick Blues" which pointed his work in a whole new direction.
Pat Carney listened to modern garage rock bands while Dan Auerbach listened to old Mississippi blues.
Previous winners include rock legend George Harrison, singer and composer Joni Mitchell and blues man Buddy Guy.
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