Blues rock is influenced by the blues but there is less emphasis on the emotions within the song and more on emphasis on rocking out and showing off instrumental prowess.
Blues rock sits in between the blues and hard rock and heavy metal.
It’s origins lie with bands like The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds who turned to American black music for their inspiration and developed in the sixties with bands like Cream and then Led Zeppelin.
Blues rock also developed in America although its influence also spread into Psychedelic Rock of the San Francisco groups and Southern Rock.
Blues rock live albums include the following highlight:
The Allman Brothers Band Fillmore East February 1970
The Allman Brothers Band Live At Ludlow Garage 1970
The Allman Brothers Band American University 12/13/70
The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East 1971
The Allman Brothers Band Eat A Peach 1971
The Allman Brothers Band Play All Night Live At The Beacon Theatre 1992
Jeff Beck Live+ 2014
Beck Bogert & Appice Live In Japan 1973
Elvin Bishop Raisin’ Hell 1976 1977
Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper The Live Adventures of… 1968
Big Brother and the Holding Company Cheap Thrills 1968
Joe Bonamassa Live from Nowhere in Particular
Joe Bonamassa Live From the Royal Albert Hall 2009
Roy Buchanan Live Stock 1974
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live 1970
Captain Beefheart Live At My Father’s Place 1978
Eric Clapton EC Was Here 1974
Eric Clapton Just One Night 1979
Eric Clapton 24 Nights 1990 1991
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood Live from Madison Square Garden 2008
Gary Clark Jr Live 2013
Climax Blues Band – FM Live 1973
Climax Blues Band World Tour 1976
Colosseum Live 1971
Cream Wheels Of Fire 1968
Cream Live Cream 1968
Cream Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6 2005
Derek And The Dominos Live At The Fillmore 1970
Ronnie Earl Blues Guitar Virtuoso Live in Europe 1993
The Fabulous Thunderbirds Live 2000
The Flamin’ Groovies In Person 1971
Fleetwood Mac Shrine 69
Fleetwood Mac Boston 1970
Foghat Live 1977
Free Free Live 1970
Rory Gallagher Live In Europe 1972
Rory Gallagher Irish Tour 1974
Gov’t Mule Live With A Little Help From Our Friends 1998
Gov’t Mule Mulennium 1999 2000
Govt Mule The Deepest End 2003
Peter Green Splinter Group Soho Live At Ronnie Scott’s 1998
The Groundhogs Live At Leeds ’71
The Groundhogs Live UK Tour 76
J Geils Band Full House 1972
J Geils Band Blow Your Face Out 1975
Jo Harman And Company Live At The Hideaway 2010
Jo Harman And Company Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2013
Beth Hart Live At Paradiso 2004
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa Live in Amsterdam 2013
Warren Haynes Live at the Moody Theater 2011
Jimi Hendrix Live At Monterey 1967
Jimi Hendrix Live At Winterland 1968
Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock 1969
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Jimi Hendrix Live at Berkeley 1970
Humble Pie Performance Rockin The Fillmore 1971
Jethro Tull Nothing Is Easy 1970
Janis Joplin Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968
Janis Joplin Live at Winterland ’68
Janis Joplin The Woodstock Experience 1969
Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1969 & 1971
Led Zeppelin How The West Was Won 1972
Led Zeppelin The Song Remains The Same 1973
Alvin Lee & Co In Flight 1974
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus 1977
Lynyrd Skynyrd One More From The Road 1976
Lonnie Mack Live Attack of the Killer V 1989
John Mayall 70th Birthday Concert 2003
John Mayer Where The Light Is Live In Los Angeles 2007
Delbert McClinton Live From Austin, Tx 1982
Delbert McClinton Live From Austin 1989
Gary Moore Essential Montreux 1990 to 2001
Gary Moore Blues Alive 1992
Van Morrison It’s Too Late To Stop Now 1973
Van Morrison It’s Too Late To Stop Now Volumes 2, 3 & 4
Coco Montoya Songs From The Road 2012 2013
Carla Olson & Mick Taylor Live Too Hot for Snakes 1990
Bonnie Raitt Road Tested 1995
Jess Roden Blowin’ 1976
Jess Roden Live At The BBC 1977
Jess Roden Hidden Masters
The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out 1969
The Rolling Stones Get Your Leeds Lungs Out on Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe 1971
The Rolling Stones The Brussels Affair 1973
The Rolling Stones Stripped 1995
Royal Southern Brotherhood Songs From The Road 2012
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Live In Chicago 2007
Southside Johnny Reach Up And Touch The Sky 1980
Status Quo Live 1976
Jim Suhler & Alan Haynes Live at Blue Cat Blues 1998
Joanne Shaw Taylor Songs From The Road
Susan Tedeschi Live From Austin Tx 2003
Tedeschi Trucks Band Everybody’s Talkin’ 2011
Ten Years After Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Ten Years After Recorded Live 1973
Jimmy Thackery & Tab Benoit Whiskey Store Live 2003
George Thorogood Live 1986
Pat Travers Band Live Go For What You Know 1979
Walter Trout Live No More Fish Jokes 1991 & 1992
Walter Trout Face The Music Live On Tour 1999
Walter Trout Live Trout 2000
Robin Trower At The BBC 1973-1975
Robin Trower Robin Trower Live 1975
The Derek Trucks Band Live At The Georgia Theatre 2003
The Derek Trucks Band Roadsongs 2009
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreux 1982 and 1985
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live At Carnegie Hall 1984
Leslie West Toronto 1976
West, Bruce and Laing Live ‘n’ Kickin’ 1973
Whitesnake Live In The Heart Of The City 1978 & 1980
Johnny Winter And Live
Johnny Winter Captured Live! 1975
ZZ Top Fandango 1975
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Blues From The Attic is a live album by the Climax Blues Band released in 1993.
One of the things that made the Climax Blues band popular in the early to mid seventies was the guitar playing of Peter Haycock. He doesn’t feature on this live album but you can hear his playing on FM Live.
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FM Live is a live album by the Climax Blues Band, recorded in 1973.
The group introduced a lot of new songs into the set rather than drawing heavily on earlier albums.
If you know the Climax Blues Band from their funky hit single Couldn’t Get It Right, you should listen to the mp3 samples before buying this live album. That song isn’t typical and if that’s what you want, you may find World Tour 1976 suits you better.
What you have on FM Live is excellent blues rock powered by the guitar of Peter Haycock.
Live is a live album by UFO recorded in 1971 before Michael Schenker joined the group. It shows their blues rock origins.
Live is the first live album by Status Quo, recorded at the Glasgow Apollo in October 1976 featuring the classic line up of the band.
I saw Quo in about 1977 so this captures the band very much as I remember them.
The sound is basic but the songs are endearing. I’ve got this playing in my car at the moment and I can’t stop playing CD 2 because it’s such a lot of fun.
In 2014 a boxset version of this album was released with two extra concerts, from Sydney, Australia in 1974 and Tokyo, Japan in 1974.
Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions includes an in concert performance of the band from April 1971 as well as live in the studio recordings and songs from gigs in 1969.
It’s often overlooked as a Led Zeppelin live album with much more attention given to:
How The West Was Won – 1972
The Song Remains The Same – 1973
The 2012 release of the reunion concert, Celebration Day has also drawn attention away from the BBC Sessions album. After all how many live Led Zeppelin albums do most fans need?
I think that’s a shame.
What we get on this album are:
Live Taste is the first live album from Rory Gallagher and Taste. It was recorded at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland in 1970 before it was burnt down and immortalised in the Deep Purple song, Smoke On The Water.
There is considerable crossover between the set lists on Live Taste and Taste Live At The Isle Of Wight also recorded in 1970.
Live At Woodstock is the most comprehensive recording of Jimi Hendrix performance at the Woodstock festival on August 18, 1969.
A previous album, simply called Woodstock was released five years earlier with fewer of the songs. Radical editing means that three of the musicians in the Gypsy Sun and Rainbows group were mixed out on the Live At Woodstock version.
Blow Your Face Out is the second live album recorded by the J Geils Band and catches the group in concert at Boston Garden, Boston on November 15, 1975 and at Cobo Hall, Detroit on November 19, 1975.
As their 1972 live album, Full House showed, the J Geils Band were best experienced live.
Live Licks is a live album by The Rolling Stones from their 2002/3 and features Sheryl Crow and Solomon Burke as guest stars.
I had to buy this album when I saw that finally they’d played Can’t You Hear Me Knocking from Sticky Fingers.
Irish Tour is a live album recorded by Rory Gallagher on his tour of Ireland in January 1974.
