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Recommend me some blues rock that’s not tacky crap....

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LewyLewy Frets: 4124
edited December 2019 in Guitar
...by which I mean no Vic Reeves club-style vocals (sorry Gary Moore), isn’t basically just rewrites of Hendrix songs with different lyrics (I’m looking at you Philip Sayce) and which doesn’t arbitrarily shoehorn diminished runs into every available chord change because that’s shows you know what you’re doing doesn’t it....

So yeah, apart from that, what’s good out there (ideally new as opposed to the JoBo, Robben et all)? Essentially looking for some more rocky guitar playing but without all the silly crap that seems to go with it.

Thoughts welcome!


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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Aynsley Lister? 
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  • Lynyrd Skynyrd's Second Helping album


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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8534
    Gary Clark Jr’s latest album is about the only modern blues rock I can tolerate 
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  • Wolfmother or


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  • sev112sev112 Frets: 2739
    Quo?
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  • Good luck with that! 

    I had Walter Trout’s Blues for the Modern Daze in my list of albums of the decade, it’s very Walter but with some thought behind the lyrics rather than shouting about mojo hands. 

    Possibly check out the two albums Beth Hart and JoBo did together which is rocky blues with an actual singer.

    dindude said:
    Gary Clark Jr’s latest album is about the only modern blues rock I can tolerate 
    Clark is great although the studio albums require broad taste. 

    dazzajl said:
    Aynsley Lister? 
    And I’ll nominate his mate Ian Parker as well. 

    Although I appreciate that none of these are very new artists. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • Eric Clapton - From The Cradle.
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  • newi123newi123 Frets: 850
    Vintage trouble - first album is great.
    Ben Harper & relentless 7 - white lies for dark times 
    ZZ Top - tres hombres. If you dont have it you should!
    Black crowes - shake your money maker. As above!
    Chtis stapleton - traveller. Admittedly more country rock than blues rock. But awesome!


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  • TTBZTTBZ Frets: 2873
    All Them Witches 
    Supersoul 

    Both somewhat stonery but still heavily blues influenced.
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  • PhilW1PhilW1 Frets: 941
    Clutch do it for me.
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  • rsvmarkrsvmark Frets: 1373
    Jeff Healey?
    An official Foo liked guitarist since 2024
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  • Fishboy7Fishboy7 Frets: 2178
    Marcus King band!
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  • TINMAN82TINMAN82 Frets: 1845
    It doesn’t get better than Freddie, BB and Albert really.

    Blackberry Smoke
    Marcus King
    Walter Trout
    Mike Zitto
    Samantha Fish


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  • zepp76zepp76 Frets: 2534
    J D Simo 
    Tomorrow will be a good day.
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6636
    Chris Whitley
    Karma......
    Ebay mark7777_1
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  • JasonJason Frets: 1102
    tFB Trader
    Larkin Poe
    The Guitar Show, Cranmore Park, Birmingham | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Podcast
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  • I'm no Mayer fan but I was blown away by the song "Try!" off his album "Try!". It was on in a pub and I had to shazaam it to find what it was.

    The album is Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino and has some R'n'B edges to it as well. I'm not sure how modern you'll find it as it's already 15 or so years old but that one song in particular just has so much more about it than any blues I've heard for a while.
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  • steven70steven70 Frets: 1262
    edited December 2019
    Any ZZ albums up to Tejas...may as well start with 'ZZ Top's First Album'
    Freddie King 'Texas Cannonball'
    Jeff Beck Group 'Rough and Ready' 
    Quicksilver Messenger Service 'Happy Trails'  (bit psychedelic)

    Just read the bit about new...sorry...above are worth a try anyway if you haven't done 'em
    In all seriousness nothing made after after '75 really hits the mark, something happened around about then, not sure what it was.

    Edit: if you want to go down the 'garage' path, the Billy Childish Buff Medways etc is worth a visit, not sure it's really blues rock, sounds nice anyway.

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  • TINMAN82TINMAN82 Frets: 1845
    steven70 said:
    Any ZZ albums up to Tejas...may as well start with 'ZZ Top's First Album'
    Freddie King 'Texas Cannonball'
    Jeff Beck Group 'Rough and Ready' 
    Quicksilver Messenger Service 'Happy Trails'  (bit psychedelic)

    Just read the bit about new...sorry...above are worth a try anyway if you haven't done 'em
    In all seriousness nothing made after after '75 really hits the mark, something happened around about then, not sure what it was.



    Have literally just put the guitar down after jamming along with several tracks on Texas Cannonball. Such a great album along with his others from the early 70s.
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