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1940–1979 blues. Luther Allison. Billy Boy Arnold. Bobby "Blue" Bland. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 1999. Paul Butterfield at Woodstock Reunion, 1979. Eric Clapton, 2006. Eddie Clearwater in Montreux, 1978. Albert Collins at Long Beach Blues Festival, 1990.
Website. bbking.com. Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric ...
s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Cover of the oversize companion book to the 2020 list. " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " is a recurring opinion survey and music ranking of the finest albums in history, compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone. It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures.
Family Style, released shortly after his death, won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album and became his best-selling, non-Double Trouble studio album with over a million shipments in the U.S. [216] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him seventh among the "100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time", [230] with a 2023 update placing ...
Billboard. Blues Albums number ones of the 1990s. Blues Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top selling blues albums in the United States, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debut as the Top Blues Albums in the issue dated September 2, 1995, as a 15-position chart with its ...
Produced by Mike Vernon and released in 1966 by Decca Records (UK) and London Records (US), it pioneered a guitar-dominated blues-rock sound. The album was commercially successful and most critics viewed it positively. In 2003 and 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it number 195 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
He also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All ...
The following is a list of blues rock musicians. Blues rock is a subgenre of rock which developed in the late-1960s and which emphasizes the traditional, three-chord blues song and instrumental improvisation. The first original blues rock artists such as Cream, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Canned Heat actually borrowed the idea of ...