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Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock: electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes with keyboards and harmonica. From its beginnings in the early to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the UK and the US performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago blues songs, such as those by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Howlin' Wolf, and Albert King, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, who put several blues songs into the pop charts. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Canned Heat were among the earliest exponents. These bands also "attempted to play long, involved improvisations which were commonplace on jazz records".[3] John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac also developed this more instrumental, but traditional-based style in the UK, while late 1960s and early 1970s groups, including Ten Years After, Savoy Brown, the Climax Blues Band and Foghat, became more hard rock oriented. In the US, Johnny Winter, the Allman Brothers Band, and ZZ Top represented a hard rock trend. While blues rock and hard rock shared a lot of similarities in the early 1970s, more traditional blues styles influenced blues rock in the 1980s,[3] when the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded their best-known works, and the 1990s, which saw guitarists Gary Moore, Jeff Healey, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd become popular concert attractions. Groups such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the White Stripes brought an edgier, more diverse style into the 2000s, while the Black Keys returned to basics. Along with hard rock, blues rock songs became the core of the music played on album-oriented rock radio, and later the classic rock format established in the 1980s. Wikipedia

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Released Title Classification Artist Score Ratings
2003 Blues Deluxe very good Joe Bonamassa 3.661 444
2004 Rubber Factory excellent The Black Keys 3.966 5433
2004 Had to Cry Today very good Joe Bonamassa 3.627 349
2004 Honkin' on Bobo good Aerosmith 3.110 1677
2006 Magic Potion nice The Black Keys 3.542 3668
2006 You & Me excellent Joe Bonamassa 3.837 503
2006 Wall to Wall poor Taste 3.079 19
2007 Icky Thump very good The White Stripes 3.710 9666
2007 Sloe Gin very good Joe Bonamassa 3.793 544
2008 Attack & Release very good The Black Keys 3.590 5200
2009 The Ballad of John Henry excellent Joe Bonamassa 3.845 786
2010 Brothers excellent The Black Keys 3.838 11113
2011 El Camino very good The Black Keys 3.752 12374

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