British blues

...Hollywood A-grade in your septum. Together, they conjure such an electricity that the rhythm section John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, whose British blues band was transformed by the Buckingham-Nicks takeover in 1974, can only stand and watch.

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...The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin. A number of these moved into mainstream rock music and as a result British blues helped to form many of the sub-genres of rock. Since then direct interest in the blues in...

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...to catching up with her in London," he says. Peter Green, the original creative genius behind Fleetwood Mac during their heydey as one of the most influential British blues bands, is playing the Academy on Monday night with his own band.

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...Guitarists of All Time", BB King once said of his guitar playing: "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard." A key figure of the British Blues movement in the 1960s, Green was a sometime member of 1960s supergroup John Mayall & The...

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...because its three stalwarts were Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass and Mick Fleetwood on drums, was heir to the legendary British blues acts such as John Mayall, the Yardbirds and Cream. The music transcended the fashion or lack...

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...that adorn Tough. The music, however, is permeated with a consistent resolve. Displaying his usual emotionalism, the Godfather of British Blues offers an album largely comprised of covers recorded with an almost entirely new band. The...

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...Dylan and while the results aren't brilliant at least they retain your attention. The two Band tracks push Clapton away from his British blues roots. "Beautiful Thing," written by Richard Manuel and Rick Danko, is Americana music at its...

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...'Call John Mayall, man,' " remembers Whittington, a Fort Worth native who graduated from L.D. Bell High School, about hearing from the British blues legend in 1993. Whittington went on to tour all over the world with Mayall, who had heard him...

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...evolution from the band's previous work, the album represented a seismic shift for the genre. No longer was metal beholden to the heavy British blues rock that had ruled the genre since Black Sabbath. In many ways this opened the door...

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...red hollow-bodied Gibson guitar. Of the mighty triumvirate of Kings - Freddie, B.B. and Albert - none had a greater influence on the British blues scene than the Texas-born but Chicago-matured Freddie. One of the high spots of Eric...

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