Tag: 1960s Blues Rock

Live Blues Rock Albums Recorded In The 1960s

Wikipedia defines blues rock as follows:

“Blues rock is a musical genre combining bluesy improvisations, commonly over the twelve-bar blues, with rock styles. The core of the blues rock sound is usually created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar often amplified…The style began to develop in the mid-1960s in Britain and the United States. British bands, such as John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and the Animals and American bands such as the Butterfield Blues Band and the Siegel–Schwall Band, experimented with music from older African-American bluesmen…”

Out of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers came Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor while the Yardbirds helped to develop Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.

Live Albums Recorded By Blues Rock Artists And Bands In The 1960s

This was the decade of Jimi Hendrix and the psychedelic bands, many who congregated in San Francisco to play blues based improvised music. It’s also the decade where British artists sold the blues back to America through the Rolling Stones and early Led Zeppelin as some blues rock was getting heavier and forming hard rock and heavy metal.

Chuck Berry Live At The Fillmore Auditorium 1967
Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper 1968
Big Brother and the Holding Company Live in San Francisco 1966
Big Brother and the Holding Company Cheap Thrills 1968
The Blues Project Live At The Cafe Au Go Go 1965
The Blues Project Live At Town Hall 1967
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band East West Live 1966 1967
Captain Beefheart Live 1966-67
Colosseum Live At The Boston Tea Party August 1969
Cream Wheels Of Fire 1968
Cream Live Cream 1968
Cream Live Cream Volume 2 1968
Cream Goodbye 1968
Fleetwood Mac Shrine 69
Jimi Hendrix Live At Monterey 1967
Jimi Hendrix Radio One 1967
Jimi Hendrix Live In Paris & Ottawa 1968
Jimi Hendrix Live At Winterland 1968
Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1969
Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock 1969
Jimi Hendrix In The West 1969 1970
Janis Joplin Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968
Janis Joplin Live at Winterland ’68
Janis Joplin In Concert 1968 & 1970
Janis Joplin The Woodstock Experience 1969
Led Zeppelin Live In Paris 1969
Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1969 & 1971
The Pretty Things Live At The BBC 1964 to 1975
Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails 1968
The Rolling Stones Got Live If You Want It 1966
The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out 1969
Spencer Davis Group Live Anthology 1965 – 1968
Spencer Davis Group Mojo Rhythms & Midnight Blues The Live Album Vol 1 Sessions 1965-1968
Ten Years After Undead 1968
Johnny Winter The Woodstock Experience 1969
The Yardbirds Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page 1968

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The All Time Best Live Blues Rock Albums

I don’t have an album poll to find the best blues rock albums for the decade but I do have an all-time best blues rock live albums poll that will guide you to the best choices for your music collection.

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Blues Rock By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s

Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall is a ten track CD given away by The Sunday Times recorded on February 24, 1969.

It features Hendrix playing with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

This concert has been featured in earlier Jimi Hendrix live albums called Experience and More Experience.

The Sunday Times was sued by the company handling Jimi Hendrix estate because it caused a film version of the Royal Albert Hall concert to be delayed – Sunday Times avoids punitive damages.

Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall

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The Rolling Stones Live Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out Review Rating 25/30

If you’re a fan of The Rolling Stones, then Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out is a must own album from the start of the Mark 2 Stones – without Brian Jones but with Mick Taylor on lead guitar – recorded in New York and Maryland in November 1969 just before Let It Bleed was released. Ya Ya’s was released in September 1970.