I’ve tried to distinguish between blues and blues rock.
Wikipedia defines blues as:
“Blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the ‘Deep South’ of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre is a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common.”
In contrast, blues rock as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s emphasises instrumental improvisations and a stronger beat but inevitably there is a crossover between the two genres.
To help understand the development, I’ve a post on the history of the blues through the birth, deaths and careers of the major blues artists.
Lonnie Brooks Live at Pepper’s 1968
Albert Collins Live At The Fillmore West 1969
Albert Collins Alive & Cool 1969
Albert Collins Deep Freeze 1969 1973
Reverend Gary Davis Live at Newport 1965
John Lee Hooker Live At Newport 1960 & 1963
John Lee Hooker Concert At Newport 1964
John Lee Hooker Live At The Café Au Go-Go 1966 & 1972
Lightnin’ Hopkins Blues Hoot 1961
Lightnin’ Hopkins The Swarthmore Concert 1964
Howlin’ Wolf Live in Europe 1964
Howlin’ Wolf Rockin’ The Blues Live In Germany 1964
Howlin’ Wolf Smokestack Lightning Live in Germany 1964
Howlin’ Wolf Killing Floor Live 1964 1973
Howlin’ Wolf Live in Cambridge Ma 1966
Albert King Live Wire Blues Power 1968
Albert King Wednesday Night In San Francisco 1968
Albert King Thursday Night In San Francisco 1968
Albert King Live 69
BB King Live at the Regal 1964
BB King Blues Is King 1966
BB King Live & Well 1969
Freddie King Live and Loud 1968
JB Lenoir Sunnyland Slim & Friends Live in 63
Mance Lipscomb Clifton Chenier Lightning Hopkins Live At The 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival
Magic Sam Live in Ann Arbor & Chicago 1963 – 1969
John Mayall Plays John Mayall Live At Klooks Kleek 1964
John Mayall Live At The BBC 1965 to 1967
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers Live In ’67
John Mayall The Diary of a Band 1967
John Mayall The Turning Point 1969
John Mayall Live At The Marquee 1969
John Mayall Live 1969
Muddy Waters At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters Authorized Bootleg Live at the Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco Nov 04-06 1966
Muddy Waters Fathers And Sons 1969
Robert Nighthawk Live On Maxwell Street 1964
Robert Nighthawk And This Is Maxwell Street 1964
Son House Live At The Gaslight Cafe Jan 3rd 1965
Son House Oberlin College Concert 1965
Otis Spann Live The Life 1964 to 1969
Junior Wells It’s My Life Baby 1966
Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds Live In London 1963
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What Are The All Time Best Live Blues Albums?
I don’t have a readers poll to find the vest blues live albums of the decade but I do have an all-time poll which will help to guide you.
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Blues Live Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Blues Rock By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Team Rock The 20 Greatest British Blues Albums: 1960 – 1966
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-07-12/the-20-greatest-british-blues-albums-1960-1966
Live At The Gaslight Cafe Jan 3rd 1965 is a live album by legendary early blues man Son House.
These solo recordings were made in Greenwich Village in New York.
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Live At The 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival is a live album with separate performances from Mance Lipscomb, Clifton Chenier and Lightning Hopkins.
It was recorded in California on April 15, 1966 and was recorded for KAL radio.
John Mayall Plays John Mayall Live At Klooks Kleek is a live album.
It was recorded at Klooks Kleek, Hampstead, London on Monday 7th December 1964.
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Blues Is King is a live album by BB King.
It was recorded in Chicago in November 1966.
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The Diary of a Band is a live album by John Mayall. The Bluesbreakers included a very young Mick Taylor who went on to play with The Rolling Stones on their best albums.
The album was originally split into volumes 1 and 2 when it was issued on the original vinyl.
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The Swarthmore Concert is a live album by Lightnin’ Hopkins.
It was recorded at the Swarthmore College Folk Festival in 1964.
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Live in Europe is a live album by Howlin’ Wolf. It also features famous blues songwriter Willie Dixon on bass.
It was recorded in Bremen, Germany on 6th November 1964.
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Live the Life is a live album by Otis Spann with Muddy Waters and his band.
It includes 16 previously unreleased live recordings between 1964 and 1969.
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Live and Loud 1968 is a live album by Freddie King.
The majority of the album was recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in 1968 with two bonus tracks from 1969 and 1973.
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Rockin’ The Blues Live In Germany 1964 is a live album by Howlin’ Wolf.
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