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 1980s
Roy Buchanan Live At Rockpalast 1985
Captain Beefheart Merseytrout Live In Liverpool 1980
Climax Blues Band The River Sessions 1982
Rick Danko Richard Manuel and Paul Butterfield Live At The Lone Star Cafe 1984
Rory Gallagher BBC Sessions 1971 to 1986
Rory Gallagher Live At Montreux 1975 to 1985
Grinderswitch Live At My Father’s Place
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session 1983
Lynyrd Skynyrd Southern By The Grace Of God 1987
Lonnie Mack Live Attack of the Killer V 1989
John Mayall Featuring Mick Taylor Return Of The Bluesbreakers
The Rolling Stones Hampton Coliseum 1981
The Rolling Stones Still Life 1981
Screaming Blue Messiahs Live At The BBC 1985
Southside Johnny Reach Up And Touch The Sky 1980
George Thorogood Live In Boston 1982
George Thorogood Live 1986
Walter Trout Life In The Jungle 1989
Stevie Ray Vaughan In The Beginning 1980
Stevie Ray Vaughan The King’s Head Inn 1980
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreux 1982 and 1985
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live At Carnegie Hall 1984
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Alive 1985 1986
Stevie Ray Vaughan Spectrum Philadelphia 23rd May 1988
Whitesnake Live In The Heart Of The City 1978 & 1980
Johnny Winter With Dr John Live In Sweden 1987
ZZ Top Lucky Thirteen 1980
ZZ Top Lowdown Live At The Capitol Theatre New Jersey June 15 1980
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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
Screaming Blue Messiahs Live At The BBC is a compilation of live recordings of the band made by the BBC in 1985 to 1987.
These are:
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The King’s Head Inn or Live At The Kings Head is a live recording by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
It was broadcast live by WNOR FM99 from The King’s Head Inn, Norfolk, Virginia on 22nd July 1980.
In the US, the album is available on Left Field Media. In the UK there are two mp3 versions from 2015 Autarc Media GmbH, CH.
Alternative covers in the UK:
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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Live Attack of the Killer V is a live album by Lonnie Mack.
It was recorded at FitzGerald’s in Chicago In December 1989 and was released in 1990.
Lonnie Mack is given credit for developing blues rock in the early 1960s by turning an electric guitar into a lead instrument with his first studio album The Wham Of A Memphis Man. That album included an instrumental song called Memphis.
According to Wikipedia
In 1980, the editors of Guitar World magazine ranked “Memphis” first among rock’s top five “landmark” guitar recordings, ahead of recordings by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Mike Bloomfield.
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Live From Austin is a live album by Delbert McClinton.
This was recorded at KLRU-TV, Austin, TX For Austin City Limits in 1989 and was released the same year.
It is not to be confused with Live From Austin, Tx from 1982 but released in 2006.
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Life In The Jungle is a part studio and part live in concert album by the Walter Trout Band.
The live parts were recorded at The Midtfyn-Festival in Denmark on July 2nd 1989.
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Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Paul Butterfield Live At The Lone Star Cafe in New York in 1984.
This is an interesting combination of styles and songs as two former members of The Band perform in concert with blues man Paul Butterfield.
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Rory Gallagher Live At Montreux is a live compilation album and DVD By Rory Gallagher.
The CD has been compiled from his recordings at famous annual festival in Switzerland in 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1985.
The DVD includes more songs and also a performance from 1994 and some of his acoustic blues recordings.
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BBC Sessions is a live compilation double album by Rory Gallagher. The first CD is recorded in concert while the second is recorded live in the studio.
It covers wide period from 1971 to 1986.
Live At Rockpalast is a live album by Roy Buchanan.
It was recorded at the Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany on 24 February 1985.
