Live Blues Albums Recorded In The 1960s

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.

Live Blues Albums Of The 1960s

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

Other Useful Websites For Live Blues Albums From The 1960s

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