Blues Rock Recommendations

Nightfall
Nightfall Posts: 10,086
edited May 2016 in Music & Movies
Looking for more music like Joe Bonamassa. Blues rock, heavy on the rock side of things. I think I like Bonamassa because a lot of his riffs are very "Zeppelin'y"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRxawmG5MfM
afterburnt wrote: »
They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    What? A guy that listens to Canibal Corpse is interested in Blues Rock. Here are a few suggestions. If you don't have the first four Bonnamassa cds your missing out his later stuff is ok but the first 4 are excellent. Get some Walter Trout, Anthony Gomes, Gary Moore, Chris Duarte, Ian Moore, Albert Cummings, Tab Benoit, Coco Montoya, Indigenous, Smoking Joe Kubeck. I could name more but got to head out,I will post more later.
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    Gary Clarke, Jr.
    Warren Haynes
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,196
    Jack White
    Dead Weather
    Raconteurs
    Rival Sons
    Royal Blood
    Gary Moore

    Just some off the top of my head.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Johnny Winter
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,016
    Yeah, I'll second the Johnny Winter. He ranges from flat-out blues to blues-rock to flat out rock & roll. "Johnny Winter And" for example was more rock & roll but some good shite fer shur - he had partnered up with Rick Derringer and they smoked. Always liked his second album, Second Winter, which IIRC was a three-sided vinyl LP, the fourth side was blank, less blues oriented than his self-titled first album. His "first" album was actually "Progressive Blues Experiment" sometimes called "Austin Texas" a smoking live album if there ever was one, and it was recorded live with the band standing in a circle playing in an empty hall. He also put out prior to his death some archive series of live concerts from the past that are real good.
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,016
    Other really good blues rock albums are Cream Live; Cream Live II; Hendrix Blues; (all three of these have some first-rate jams from Eric Claption and Jimi respectively) Stevie Ray Vaughn - various; Allman Bros. Live At Filmore East (still had Duane), among many others. For my money, Led Zeppelin did some of the best blues-rock ever. Usually each album had a smoking blues-rock song ala "Since I Been Loving You."
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,016
    Savoy Brown ; Ten Years After
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    edited June 2016
    +1 on SRV, can't believe that mention wasn't one of the firsts @dromunds - all great suggestions so far. I'd add Rainbow, Deep Purple certainly, and even early Black Sabbath to the more classic side of heavy classic blues rock.

    For a more or less modern, (though they came out in the grunge era), I have always thought that Pearl Jam is in the Zeppelin style of blues rock, one of my favorite bands of the more recent classic rock era. Especially so for the first three albums.
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  • [Deleted User]
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    Robin Trower and
    Blue Man group
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,016
    Roy Buchanan's Second Album. One of my all-time favorites. ZZ Top Tres Hombres
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    Kenny Wayne Shepherd
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  • george daniel
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    Robin Trower,,Johnny Lang,and maybe some Kenny Wayne Shepherd
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    What? A guy that listens to Cannibal Corpse is interested in Blues Rock.

    I have a very eclectic taste in music. Right next to my Cannibal Corpse records I have Phil Collins, Johnny Cash, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Bonamassa, name it.

    It's going to take a while to go through all of these on YouTube, slow down! :)

    Not to offend any suggestions but Pearl Jam and Blue Man Group are already no-go's.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • tratliff
    tratliff Posts: 1,703
    edited June 2016
    John Lee Hooker is one of my favorites. Albums "Chill Out", "The Healer", "Don't Look Back"....

    Jonny Lang. Albums "Lie to me", "Wander this world"...

    SRV is the all time great.

    Don't forget Eric Clapton. To many albums to list.

    Clapton with BB King on "Riding with the King" is pretty fabulous.

    And give a listen to Eric Johnson "Ah Via Musicom". Not sure I would call it blues rock but still a good album with great sound quality.
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  • dromunds
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    +1 Robert Cray. He plays with John Lee Hooker on Mr. Lucky (maybe The Healer too?) but that is more blues than blues-rock, although those are two EXCELLENT albums.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited June 2016
    https://youtu.be/qtLw_53C95M


    Arc Angels is a must have Charlie Sexton, Doyle Bramhall II and Stevie Ray Vaughn's backing band, this is a classic you need it.
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  • gudnoyez
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    edited June 2016
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    Currently $4.99 on Amazon this very moment you need this, it could very well end up being one of your favorites it is one of mine and just about everyone I know feels the same, get it already you won't regret this purchase one bit.

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  • tratliff
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    edited June 2016
    gudnoyez wrote: »
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    Currently $4.99 on Amazon this very moment you need this, it could very well end up being one of your favorites it is one of mine and just about everyone I know feels the same, get it already you won't regret this purchase one bit.

    Good call on the Arc Angels. That one slipped my mind. Very good album. In fact I'll put it on now. "Living In A Dream"

    Another good one from the same time period is the band "Cry of Love"

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited June 2016
    I'll go through them all more in depth later tonight but real quick listens, Kenny Wayne Sheperd and Jonny Lang grabbed me right away.

    I'm not 100% sure about Jonny Lang though. Lie to Me sounded great, but not really digging this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySt-ubYiGw8

    ...and Bonamassa still hasn't been topped for me personally.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • [Deleted User]
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    Frank Marino if not mentioned, but you get alot more than just blues rock
    I suppose...
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited June 2016
    tratliff wrote: »
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    i7jvmx15rvje.jpg

    Currently $4.99 on Amazon this very moment you need this, it could very well end up being one of your favorites it is one of mine and just about everyone I know feels the same, get it already you won't regret this purchase one bit.

    Good call on the Arc Angels. That one slipped my mind. Very good album. In fact I'll put it on now. "Living In A Dream"

    Another good one from the same time period is the band "Cry of Love"

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ53izn6djTVRmjFoLCGADy6eNqlGBeSM2RP_FZRXTuG0oDfIOdaPvf3Q4

    I got both Cry Of Loves the second one with the different lead Singer is surprisingly just as good, to bad Audley Freed ended up in the Black Crowes as Cry Of Love was a great band
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  • Jazzhead
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    You might give the Black Keys "Magic Potion" a listen. Not like Bonamassa but definitely blues-rock with lots of Zeppelin like riffs. More Mississippi road house, and recorded to sound that way as well. Another disc comes to mind - Buddy Guy, "Sweet Tea". Arguably his hardest, most intense album. These may not deliver the blues interpretation you are looking for, but they might appeal. For more jazz influenced blues-rock you might listen to Robben Ford's "Soul on Ten"
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    Blue goose
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    might do it as well
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  • afterburnt
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    Humble Pie
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    edited June 2016
    got it; Black Label Society >:)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icEHA2DGFCk&index=1&list=RDicEHA2DGFCk
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  • miner
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    Also, some John Hiatt (Bring the Family, Little Head) or Little Village
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  • [Deleted User]
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    give the Stray Dog LP a listen if you want. hard rock and blues.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    edited June 2016
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzSaOjwPYU

    Chris Rea is brilliant.
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