I’ve tried to provide links to the major artists from the different music genres featured on the Best Live Albums Blog together with a few of my personal favourites which aren’t as well known.
Abba – pop
AC/DC – hard rock
Aerosmith – hard rock
Alice Cooper – hard rock
Joan Armatrading – singer songwriter
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
Be Bop Deluxe
The Band
Count Basie
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Blur
Tommy Bolin
Joe Bonamassa
David Bowie
James Brown
Dave Brubeck
Jeff Buckley
Budgie
Burning Spear
Buzzcocks
Camel
Captain Beefheart
Eric Clapton
Climax Blues Band
Joe Cocker
Leonard Cohen
Coldplay
Albert Collins
Colosseum
John Coltrane – jazz
Sam Cooke
Elvis Costello
Cream
Crosby Stills & Nash
Crowded House
Deaf School
Deep Purple
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Dio
Dire Straits
Eric Dolphy
Dr Feelgood
Dr John
Dream Theater
Bob Dylan
Earth Wind & Fire
Echo & The Bunnymen
Electric Light Orchestra
Duke Ellington
Joe Ely – country rock
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Bill Evans
Fairport Convention
Ella Fitzgerald
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Frampton
Aretha Franklin
Free
Rory Gallagher
J Geils Band
Genesis
Dizzy Gillespie
Govt Mule
Grand Funk Railroad
Grateful Dead
Al Green
Buddy Guy
George Harrison – classic rock
Jimi Hendrix – blues rock
Billie Holiday – jazz
John Lee Hooker – blues
Howlin’ Wolf – blues
Iron Maiden – hard rock
Joe Jackson – singer songwriter
The Jam – punk rock
Jefferson Airplane – psychedelic rock
Jethro Tull – progressive rock
Billy Joel – singer songwriter
Elton John – classic rock
Janis Joplin – blues rock
Journey – AOR
Judas Priest – hard rock
Albert King – blues
BB King – blues
Kiss – hard rock
Led Zeppelin – hard rock
John Lennon – classic rock
Little Feat – southern rock
Nils Lofgren – classic rock
Lynyrd Skynyrd – southern rock
Bob Marley
John Martyn – singer songwriter
Dave Matthews
John Mayall – blues
Curtis Mayfield
Paul McCartney
Charles Mingus
Joni Mitchell
Gary Moore
Van Morrison
Charlie Parker
Graham Parker
Pink Floyd
Iggy Pop
Elvis Presley
Rainbow
Bonnie Raitt
Jess Roden
Paul Rodgers
The Rolling Stones
Roxy Music
Rush
Bob Seger
Southside Johnny
Bruce Springsteen
Status Quo
Talking Heads
Taste
Television
10cc
Thin Lizzy
The Who
Wings
Johnny Winter – blues rock
Wishbone Ash
PLEASE NOTE
Disc 2 of the Bob Weir anthology “Weir Here” is in fact a superb Grateful Dead live album, in all but name. It’s my favourite live Dead album but never makes any lists because it’s packaged as part 2 of the BW anthology. Check it out!
Rod Stewart Absolutley Live is no where to be found on your site. I love your page I grew up a huge fan of live albums. Then I became interested in collecting live bootleg shows I have hundreds of shows.
I’m glad you like the website.
Absolutely Live is on here and has been since September 2015. Although I’ve got it in my collection and even bought the mp3s of the bonus tracks added to it when it was re-released, it’s not one of my favourite Rod Stewart albums. I keep hoping we’ll get a box set collecting live performances from around 1970 to 1975 when he’s backed by Ron, Ronnie, Ian and Kenny.
It’s here http://www.bestlivealbums.com/rod-stewart-absolutely-live-1982/
I’m sad that bootlegs were ever needed. Some have been exceptional and gone on to be great official live albums too but you always take a big risk, even with those that are sourced from concerts broadcast on the radio.
You’ve also alerted me to the fact that I’ve never updated my major artists page and, indeed, my more detail listing has also stopped working for some strange reason. I had to change hosts because the first one kept suspending my account for some strange reason and things have been funny since then.