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unusual facts about blues rock



Al Atkins

Atkins began his musical career in 1964, singing in a succession of blues rock outfits before forming a band in September 1969, named Judas Priest (named after the Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest").

Beasts of Bourbon

Beasts of Bourbon are an Australian alternative rock, blues rock band formed in August 1983, with James Baker on drums (ex-Hoodoo Gurus), Spencer P. Jones on guitar (The Johnnys), Tex Perkins on vocals (Dum Dums), Kim Salmon on guitar and Boris Sujdovic on bass guitar (both ex-The Scientists).

CHNM-DT

A leather-clad Sikh motorcyclist who boards his bike to the Channel M jingle, arranged and performed in a style mixing ZZ Top-style blues rock with East Indian music

Gregg Allman Band

The Gregg Allman Band, also known as Gregg Allman & Friends, is a Southern rock/blues rock group that Gregg Allman established and has led since the 1970s, during periods when Allman has been recording and performing separate from the Allman Brothers Band and has chosen not to perform exclusively as a solo artist.

Hot Head Show

Hot Head Show is an English eclectic blues rock trio based in London, currently composed of guitarist/vocalist Jordan Copeland (son of Stewart Copeland), drummer Maxwell "Betamax" Hallett, and bassist Jonah Brody.

Love Like a Man

"Love Like a Man" is a song and hit single by British blues rock group Ten Years After, first released in 1970 and taken from their album Cricklewood Green.

Mike Buck

Buck moved to Austin in the mid-1970s and joined the blues rock group, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, along with Keith Ferguson, Jimmie Vaughan, and Kim Wilson.

The Best of ZZ Top

The Best of ZZ Top (subtitled 10 Legendary Texas Tales) is a greatest hits album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1977.

The Mops

The group then signed with Liberty/Toshiba/EMI, moving to a blues rock sound, and followed with the hits "Gekko Kamen (Moonlight Mask)" and "Goiken Muyo (No Excuse)", both of which charted in 1971.


see also

Bicho do Mato

Bicho do Mato is the fifth album from Brazilian blues/rock band O Bando do Velho Jack, and was released in 2007.

Bruce Iglauer

The Alligator catalog contains over 250 albums, ranging from electric Chicago blues and blues rock to acoustic Piedmont blues and West Coast jump blues.

Calling card

Calling Card, a 1976 album by Irish blues-rock musician Rory Gallagher

Coricidin

In the late 1960s, blues-rock guitarist Duane Allman (1946–1971) of The Allman Brothers Band began using an empty glass Coricidin bottle as a guitar slide, finding it to be just the right size and shape for this purpose.

Far Hills, New Jersey

J. Geils (born 1946), blues-rock lead guitarist, singer, and founder of The J. Geils Band.

Lew Lewis

His album Save the Wail (1979) produced by Paul Riley, featured Buzz Barwell (ex Dr. Feelgood) and Bob Clouter (Ex Mickey Jupp's The Orioles) on drums, Rick Taylor and Pete Zear on guitars and Johnny Squirrel on bass, collectively known as Lew Lewis Reformer, they were, stylistically, "between pub rock and blues-rock".

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is the debut album by American blues-rock artist Shannon Curfman, released in 1999, for Arista Records.

New Hartford, New York

Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer.

Nick Movshon

Movshon has played with groups such as Brooklyn art-rockers TV on the Radio, the blues-rock duo The Black Keys, Afrobeat ensemble Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, hip-hop group The Wu Tang Clan, soul singer Charles Bradley, mixed-soul group Menahan Street Band, and soul-funk group Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

One More River to Cross

:For One More River To Cross, the studio album for the blues rock band Canned Heat, see One More River To Cross (album).

Only Want You For Your Body

On the basis of this album, Buffalo were perhaps one of the earliest acts to develop heavy metal music away from its blues-rock origins – with some passing similarities to future metal acts later in the decade, such as those in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.

Patrick Sweany

Patrick Sweany (born April 1974) is a blues-rock musician from Massillon, Ohio.

Ramon Goose

As of 2012 Goose has started work on the Desert Rock (band) a unique musical project which evolved after Goose travelled to the Sahara and also Dakar to combine his love of Berber and Mandinka rhythms and melodies with Blues Rock.

Rancho Texicano

Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top is a best of album by American blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music).

Royal Southern Brotherhood

Royal Southern Brotherhood is an American blues and blues rock supergroup, consisting of singer and percussionist Cyril Neville, vocalist and guitarist Devon Allman, vocalist and guitarist Mike Zito, drummer Yonrico Scott, and bassist Charlie Wooton.

Selwyn, Ontario

Paul Reddick, Canadian blues-rock artist, songwriter, and harp player

Skip Prokop

He is also remembered for The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, a seminal live blues-rock album of the late 1960s.

Stevensville, Ontario

It is also the birthplace of nationally and internationally respected blues, rock and pop keyboardist Michael Fonfara.

The Beefeaters

A precursor to this band was formed in Copenhagen in early 1964, but their strong orientation towards blues-rock began only with the arrival of Peter Thorup in 1966.

The Jenerators

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

The Most of Animals

The Most of Animals or The Most of The Animals is the title of a number of different compilation albums by Newcastle upon Tyne blues rock group The Animals.

Yovan Nagwetch

His main musical project is called Wabanag, a concept band blending traditional contents inspired by Nagwetch`s Native American/Canadian Aboriginal background with blues-rock, a music style that has both Black and Red origins.