Talk:Blues rock

message: Copied from a discussion at Talk:Country rock:
Is there any meaningful difference between "country rock" and Southern rock? Tuf-Kat 06:12, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)
: Yeah.  Country rock is a lot more country.  Gram Parsons is country rock, Lynryd Skynyrd are Southern rock.  They don't sound all that similar.  Naturally there's a crossover : Little Feat, Commander Cody et al.  Country rock tends to be song and vocal based -- country songs with a rockier arrangement, Southern Rock are mainly rock songs with a countrified arrangement and harmony.  Southern rock thinks nothing of filling entire sides of a double album with instrumental jams (Hey, the Allman Brothers Band, this means YOU!)
Southern Rock is arguably a fusion of country rock with blues rock, with a lyrical emphasis on Southern culture. Of course, all three subgenres are diverse and tend to overlap. Heck, the Marshall Tucker Band was countrier than most of what gets played on country radio these days. Just my 2¢. Archola 01:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Blues Rock, Country Rock and Southern Rock

message: John Mayer is a Blues-rock artist (as of 2005). Please consult his page and/or music for proof of this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 154.5.44.229 (talk) 01:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to provide a citation for such a claim. Only his latest album can be considered blues-rock; his earlier music is definitely acoustic rock or something of the like. The aim of the list is to provide artists of whose music most is considered blues-rock, in order to provide readers with easy examples of the genre. I've explained this countless times in the edit history and above on the talk page, see there. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 02:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Mayer 

message: i think it has 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
so at A it's:  A C  D Eb E G
in the graphic ther is no E
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.39.161.218 (talk) 
:Indeed, you are correct; I will try to notate it correctly when I get to a computer with my notation program. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 23:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blues Pentatonic

message: If you'd like to make any additions or changes to the list of sample artists, please discuss them here first. I am perfectly willing to make amendments to the list, but it should remain short and concise, as seen in the hidden HTML message in that section. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 04:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I reinstated The Black Crowes on the list. cduniverse.com says "Taking their cue from the Faces and early-'70s Rolling Stones, the Black Crowes put the raunch back into rock & roll at a time when the genre was nearly blues-less" and "With their roots firmly planted in the alluvial top soil of '70s blues rock, The Black Crowes are a classic hard rock riff band". Amazon.com says "This straightforward document of a straightforward band is also the best entryway to the group's fabulous, swaggering, ballsy, bluesy rock & roll" on their review of the Black Crowes' greatest hits albumn. The group is one of the most popular contemporary blues-rock groups. Revolutionaryluddite 02:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions to sample artist list 

message: For some reason, the "fusion genres" section is not showing. Could someone see what is wrong? FMAFan1990 23:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know someone who may be able to assist. I will flag them down. 156.34.208.95 00:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. --PEJL 06:53, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you kind samaritan :D . I figured you could tweak it out. 156.34.212.248 10:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Getting fusion genres to show 

message: The sources to this article are questionable.  The first two are books about the history of metal.  The last one is one of the only pages speaking of blues-rock as an entire genre upon itself.  I believe that blues-rock is the same as rock.  Rock takes on many influences, mainly blues.  Why should that be called blues-rock?  That's like saying contemporary musicians get influences from classical songs, and therefore, should be called Classical-Contemporary.  Those two are entirely different genres.  
Generally, I don't think fusion-genres should be noted as genres because they take influences and not necessarily characteristics of the genre itself.
Speaking of which, Stevie Ray Vaughan is listed as blues-rock and it should be rock.  No artist can be called pure blues either, because pure blues came from field workers before World War II, singing repetitively in order to relieve the boredom, stress, and strain that they went through.  By the way, blues was DEVELOPED, not created, in New Orleans and blues players were defined as blues players because they came from the area. 
Flame away.
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/bluesmusic/a/bluesmusic.htm -- I understand this is an ABOUT page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.131.133.19 (talk) 16:27, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  blues-rock? 

message: Why is Black Sabbath not mentioned?
61x62x61 (talk) 22:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because they are a heavy metal band. Anger22  (Talk 2 22) 22:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually they are not metal according to Tony Iommi they are a Hard rock band with a very strong blues incfluenced sound!!71.17.159.25 (talk) 21:57, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

text: That's exactly what heavy metal is: "hard rock with a very strong blues influenced sound" (but not that strong as it is in blues rock!!) 178.197.234.31 (talk) 10:07, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

text: But somehow you were right: The Electric Elves should be mentioned, while its singer Ronnie Dio was singing for Black Sabbath after Ozzi flew out! You should listen to some ELF songs and then you know what real Blues Rock is meant to be. 178.197.233.7 (talk) 11:30, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Black Sabbath|Black Sabbath...]] 

message: Hi, I relocated the list to a new list article. Lists like these can be problematic when they are right in the article, because it is just too easy for a person to add in an OR or POV band, or even add in a joke band. If I put in a 1980s death metal band in the list, it would probably stay up for months. Even the list article is a bit problematic, because of the elements of POV and OR in classifying some bands as blues rock groups. Ideally, each band included in the list should have a footnote, where a reputable critic calls the band a "blues rock" group.OnBeyondZebrax (talk) 15:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relocated list to new article 

message: Why does this article have a hyphen in the title, whereas others, like Folk rock, do not?  Is this consistent with MOS? ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:23, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking back to the origins of the article it seems there was a merger between blues rock and blues-rock and for some reason the hyphen won as the title. I suspect editors were confused by adjective use of the term (eg. Blues-rock masters). Are you suggesting a move? In which case I would have to agree.--SabreBD (talk) 16:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I am suggesting a move, as it would be in keeping with precedent.  I almost made the move earlier, but decided a discussion would be helpful first. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 23:51, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

text: Ok lets go for it. I doesn't look like it will be controversial.--SabreBD (talk) 16:46, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Note: I've subsequently moved List of blues-rock performers and List of blues-rock musicians. -- œ™ 01:58, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the hyphen? 

message: What I miss in this quite British article: Janis Joplin, and The Electric Elves (founded 1967, but only recorded the first album in 1972 due to a car accident). So Fleetwoot Mac weren't the first one, and they were British "clean", they hadn't the American "dirty" style. While both Janis' singing and The Electric Elves guitar play were strongly influenting Black Sabbath, beside Alice Coopers shocker show. So they were the precursors to heavy metal, and all Americans! 178.197.234.31 (talk) 10:43, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Scaruffi defines "blues rock" as a "genre of rhythm'n'blues played by white European musicians." Yeah, and Jimi Hendrix didn't exist, huh? There you go with some "white" music: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2999417569188182518 178.197.232.125 (talk) 11:22, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Blues Rock 

message: The IP edits from 5/15–25/2015 are not supported by the "references" (bare URL links) and do not follow policies such as WP:NOR, WP:VER, WP:NPOV or WP:SYNTH.  See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagged 85 (more info: WP:Jagged 85 cleanup and WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagged 85/Archive). —Ojorojo (talk) 19:10, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  5/15–25/2015 IP