Genre
Blues Rock
12 bands in the Top 500 carry Blues Rock as a primary or secondary tag.
- 12 bands
- 1970s dominant era
- 2 countries
- #002 Led Zeppelin
Pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal whose sound defined a decade.
- #003 The Rolling Stones
The longest-running rock band, central to the British Invasion and beyond.
- #067 ZZ Top
Texas blues-rock trio whose long beards and tight grooves became iconic.
- #069 The Allman Brothers Band
Southern rock progenitors whose dual-guitar jams reshaped American rock.
- #072 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hendrix's London trio reinvented the electric guitar in three studio LPs.
- #073 Cream
Clapton-Bruce-Baker supergroup who defined the rock power trio.
- #074 Bad Company
British supergroup behind a string of bluesy hard-rock hits.
- #075 Free
British blues-rock outfit whose 'All Right Now' became a hard-rock standard.
- #077 The Yardbirds
British R&B incubator that launched Clapton, Beck, and Page.
- #078 The Animals
Newcastle British Invasion band famous for their take on 'House of the Rising Sun'.
- #132 The Black Keys
Akron blues-rock duo whose retro grit became a 2010s mainstream sound.
- #133 The Dead Weather
Garage-rock supergroup with Jack White and Alison Mosshart.