blues rock
blues rock is a genre. blues rock grew out of Blues, Rock, Chicago blues, soul blues and gospel blues. It sits close to jazz blues, tango rock, rock and roll, Rap and Garage rock, scenes that trade players, venues and ideas with it. Its influence carried into Heavy metal and stoner metal, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 36 connections around blues rock. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where blues rock came from and where it led.
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blues rock connections
blues rock grew out of Blues, Rock, Chicago blues and soul blues, shares an orbit with jazz blues, tango rock, rock and roll and Rap, went on to shape Heavy metal and stoner metal. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
What influenced blues rock
Sounds and acts that shaped blues rock.
Genres similar to blues rock
Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with blues rock.
- jazz bluesgenre
- tango rockgenre
- rock and rollgenre
- Rapgenre
- Garage rockgenre
- early reggaegenre
- Countrygenre
- Soulgenre
- soul bluesgenre
- Rhythm and bluesgenre
- Progressive rockgenre
- electronic rockgenre
- Latin rockgenre
- British rhythm and bluesgenre
- folk rockgenre
- hard rockgenre
- experimental rockgenre
- gospel bluesgenre
- piano rockgenre
- Alternative rockgenre
- country rockgenre
- progggenre
- Psychedelic rockgenre
- worldbeatgenre
- rap rockgenre
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