Blues-Rock Explosion

Blues-Rock Explosion

Editors: Summer McStravick and John Roos
Contributors: Martin Celmins, Harry Shapiro,
Borge Skilbrigt, Mike Stax, and Jeff Watt
Archive Consultant: Julian Barker

The Blues-Rock Explosion writers have combined exhaustive searches of 1960s and 1970s rock journalism with up-to-date personal interviews to gather new, accurate information about some of the '60s' greatest stars... as well as some of the most overlooked but talented bands.

Blues-Rock Explosion, the first volume in a series covering Sixties rock music, offers fascinating profiles of 42 artists, ranging from the influential and popular Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield and the Allman Brothers to lesser-known contributors including Bakerloo and Black Cat Bones. This comprehensive collection, which concentrates on 1960-1970, a vibrant period where blues music enjoyed a significant renaissance due largely to young white musicians who brought a rock 'n' roll intensity to the blues, is unrivaled in its attention to detail and accuracy.

Along with complete biographies, U.S. and UK discographies and the artists' critical and commercial impact, the Blues-Rock Explosion opens a window to the often riveting interpersonal dynamics that shaped and ultimately defined combustible groups like the Yardbirds, Allman Brothers, Cream, the Siegel-Schwall Band and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, that renowned launching pad for future guitar heroes like Mick Taylor, Peter Green and 'Slowhand' himself.

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