blues revival
Delta sound returns
A blues revival is a period of renewed popular interest in blues music, typically referring to the 1960s movement when young white audiences in America and Britain rediscovered earlier blues artists.
Musicians like B.B.
King and Muddy Waters found new audiences, while British bands drew heavily on blues traditions: The Rolling Stones emerged from the British blues revival.
- harmonicaHandheld reed wind instrument
- Muddy WatersChicago blues founding figure
- B.B. KingBlues guitarist icon
- slide guitarStringed instrument with gliding bar
- Mississippi DeltaRiver's fan-shaped lowland
Eric Clapton · Taj Mahal · Led Zeppelin · counterculture · British Invasion · Robert Johnson · 1960s · pentatonic scale · post-war era · rolling stones · Bonnie Raitt · American South · rediscovery · Woodstock · improvisation · juke joint · call-and-response · fingerpicking
- BluesB.B. King, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, blue notes, Buddy Guy
- folk musicfolk, folk music, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad
- Blues RockEric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, The Yardbirds
blues revivalelectronic dance music
Synthesizer-based club genre
synthpop · EDM · techno · progressive rock · avant-garde
blues revivalpop
Fizzy drink, regionally
mainstream pop · Top 40 · bubblegum pop · stadium rock · chart music