Here are a series of biographies of early British blues artists and bands including those from the British Blues Archive:
Biiographies currently being formatted – more details coming soon.
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The Animals
– one of the most important bands of the British blues/R&B scene in the 60s.
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The Big Town Playboys |
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The Blues Band |
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Graham Bond
– one of the founding fathers of the 60s British blues scene.
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Savoy Brown
– British blues/rock band formed by Kim Simmonds and John O’Leary in 1965 and still performing to this day.
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Chicken Shack
– blues band founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb, Andy Sylvester, Alan Morley and later joined by Christine Perfect (McVie).
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Cyril Davies
– one of the first British blues harmonica players who pioneered amplified Chicago-style Blues Harp in the UK and formed Britain’s first popular ‘purist’ Chicago Blues Band.
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Spencer Davis |
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Fleetwood Mac |
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Otis Grand |
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Peter Green
– a major figure in the ‘second great epoch’ of the British blues movement; founder of Fleetwood Mac.
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The Groundhogs
– a British blues/rock band formed in 1963 by Tony “TS” McPhee and active for some 40+ years
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Keef Hartley
– drummer and leader of the Keef Hartley Band; also achieving notoriety as John Mayall’s drummer.
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Paul Jones |
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Dave Kelly |
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Jo Ann Kelly |
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Alexis Korner
– formed the UK’s (and the world’s) first all-white, electric Blues Band; established the UK’s first Blues Clubs (The London Blues & Barrelhouse Club & The Ealing Club); and inspired a generation of new British Blues and R&B musicians.
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Paul Lamb |
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Manfred Mann
– R&B, jazz and blues band, regularly in the 60s singles and album charts.
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John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers |
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The Pretty Things
– English rock band of the early 60s and still going strong, celebrating their 50th anniversary tour in 2013.
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Ten Years After
– British blues/rock band formed in late 1960s by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons.
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The Yardbirds
– English blues band on the 60s, launching the careers of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck
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more coming soon …