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 1970s
The Allman Brothers Band Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival 1970
The Allman Brothers Band Live At Ludlow Garage 1970
The Allman Brothers Band Fillmore East February 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 Boston Common 8/17/71
The Allman Brothers Band S.U.N.Y. at Stonybrook NY 9/19/71
The Allman Brothers Band Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas 1972 To 1975
Ashton Garner & Dyke Live In Montreux 1970
Ashton Gardner and Dyke Let It Roll Live On Stage 1971
Elvin Bishop King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert 1976
Roy Buchanan Live Stock 1974
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live 1970
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live At A&R Studios 1970
Paul Butterfield and Better Days Live at Winterland Ballroom 1973
Canned Heat 70 Concert Live In Europe
Captain Beefheart Live n Rare 1972 to 1980
Captain Beefheart Live London 74
Captain Beefheart Live At My Father’s Place 1978
Roger Chapman Live In Hamburg 1979
Eric Clapton Rainbow Concert 1973
Eric Clapton EC Was Here 1974
Eric Clapton Just One Night 1979
Eric Clapton Crossroads 2 Live In The Seventies
Climax Blues Band FM Live 1973
Climax Blues Band Live, Rare & Raw 1973 – 1979
Climax Blues Band Live At Rockpalast 1976
Climax Blues Band World Tour 1976
Climax Blues Band Live At The BBC Rock Goes To College 1978
Colosseum Live 1971
Derek And The Dominos Live At The Fillmore 1970
Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston Vol 1 1970
Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston Vol 2 1970
Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston Vol 3 1970
Fleetwood Mac Boston 1970
Foghat Live 1977
Free Live 1970
Free Songs Of Yesterday CD 4 1970
Free Live At The BBC
Rory Gallagher BBC Sessions 1971 to 1986
Rory Gallagher Live In Europe 1972
Rory Gallagher Irish Tour 74
Rory Gallagher Cradle Rock 1974
Rory Gallagher Live At Montreux 1975 to 1985
Rory Gallagher Notes From San Francisco 1979
Grinderswitch Live At My Father’s Place
Grinderswitch Live Tracks
The Groundhogs Live At Leeds ’71
Groundhogs Hoggin’ The Stage Plus 1971 1976
The Groundhogs Live UK Tour 76
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Jimi Hendrix Wild Blue Angel 1970
Jimi Hendrix Freedom Atlanta Pop Festival 1970
Hot Tuna Live at the Fillmore West 3rd July 1971
Humble Pie Performance Rockin The Fillmore 1971
J Geils Band Full House 1972
J Geils Band Blow Your Face Out 1975
Jethro Tull Nothing Is Easy 1970
Janis Joplin In Concert 1968 & 1970
Paul Kossoff Live At Croydon Fairfield Halls 15/6/75
Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1969 & 1971
Led Zeppelin How The West Was Won 1972
Alvin Lee & Co In Flight 1974
Little Feat Live At Ultrasonic Studios, Long Island, April 1973
Little Feat Electrif Lycanthrope 1974
Little Feat Live In Holland 1976
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus 1977
Dave Mason Certified Live 1976
The Pretty Things Live At The BBC 1964 to 1975
Bonnie Raitt The Lost Broadcast Philadelphia 1972
Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George Ultrasonic Studios 1972
Bonnie Raitt Under The Falling Sky 1972 1973
Bonnie Raitt Angel From Montgomery Radio Broadcast 1976
Bonnie Raitt Same Old Song 1979
Jess Roden Blowin’ 1976
Jess Roden Live At The BBC 1976
The Rolling Stones Get Your Leeds Lungs Out on Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe 1971
The Rolling Stones Brussels Affair 1973
The Rolling Stones LA Friday 75 Authorised Bootleg
The Rolling Stones From The Vault LA Forum 1975
The Rolling Stones Love You Live 1977
Southside Johnny 1978 Live In Boston
Status Quo Live 1976
Taste Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970
Taste Live Taste 1970
Ten Years After Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Ten Years After Recorded Live 1973
Pat Travers Band Live Go For What You Know 1979
Robin Trower Live 1975
Robin Trower At The BBC 1973-1975
UFO Live 1971
West, Bruce and Laing Live ‘n’ Kickin’ 1973
Leslie West Toronto 1976
Wet Willie Drippin Wet 1972
Whitesnake Live In The Heart Of The City 1978 & 1980
Johnny Winter Live Johnny Winter And 1970
Johnny Winter Live at the Fillmore East 10/3/70
Johnny Winter Captured Live! 1975
ZZ Top Fandango 1975
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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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Toronto 1976: Official Bootleg Series Vol 4 is a live album by the Leslie West Band.
It was recorded at a club in Toronto, Canada in the late summer of 1976 while West was promoting The Great Fatsby studio album.
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Boston Common 8/17/71 is a live album by The Allman Brothers Band.
It was recorded in Boston, Massachusetts on August 17, 1971. This was six weeks after the release of their breakthrough album, At Fillmore East, and ten weeks before Duane Allman’s death.
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Live UK Tour 76 is a live album by The Groundhogs.
It was recorded at The Kings Hall in Derby on 24th March 1976.
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American University 12/13/70 is a live album by The Allman Brothers Band.
It was recorded from two sets played in Washington DC on December 13, 1970.
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Live At My Father’s Place is a live recording by southern rock band Grinderswitch.
It was recorded in Long Island, USA in the late 1970s or the early ’80s.
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Cradle Rock is an archived released live album by Rory Gallagher from 1974.
It was originally broadcast on the radio.
Anyone who has heard Irish Tour ’74 knows that this is a terrific year for Gallagher but unfortunately this is a disappointing release.
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Late Night Truck Stop is a live album by Little Feat.
It was recorded at Ebbets Field in Colorado on 19 July 1973.
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Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas is a live compilation album by The Allman Brothers Band after the deaths of band leader Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley.
If you want guitar drenched southern blues rock, then you need to focus on the albums recorded in 1971 and before like the widely recognised classic At Fillmore East that challenges in many people’s opinion for the title of the “greatest live album ever”. Then check out the later albums with Warren Haynes.
This band is different, more jazzy and soulful as the band only featured Dickie Betts on guitar and instead of a second guitarist, they recruited keyboardist/pianist player Chuck Leavell.
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Hendrix In The West is a compilation album of live recordings from 1969 and 1970 and was one of the early posthumous releases that would appear under the Jimi Hendrix name.
This originally collected together performances from February 1969 through to August 1970. It has been re-released in a remastered version in 2011 with extra songs and the removal of the two Royal Albert Hall 1969 songs.
The re-released removed Little Wing and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) from the February 1969 London performance and replaced them with Little Wing from Winterland in October 1968 and Voodoo Chile from San Diego in May 1969.
To some extent this album has been superseded by the release of the individual concerts.
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Live at Berkeley is a live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
It is the recording from the second performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, California on May 30, 1970. By this stage, the Band Of Gypsys had ended and Hendrix retained Billy Cox on bass but reverted back to his old drummer, Mitch Mitchell.
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