Blues & Blues-Rock
3 guides
Eric Clapton
From the Yardbirds and Cream to Derek and the Dominos and a long solo career, one of rock's most revered guitarists, and the man who put the blues at the heart of it.
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Led Zeppelin
The band that took the blues, cranked it to a mythic scale, and more or less invented hard rock, four musicians whose every album still sounds enormous.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Texas firebrand who single-handedly dragged the blues back into the spotlight in the 1980s, playing with a tone and ferocity no one has matched since.
Read the guide →Bluegrass & Acoustic
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Tony Rice
The most influential flatpicking guitarist in the history of bluegrass, a player of impossible clarity and swing who rewrote what an acoustic guitar could do.
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Garcia / Grisman
In his last years Jerry set down the electric guitar and made warm, intimate acoustic music with mandolin master David Grisman, an old friend from his bluegrass youth.
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The Pizza Tapes
Three acoustic masters, a living room, and a pile of old folk and bluegrass songs: one loose, joyful, joke-filled session that became a word-of-mouth classic.
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Greensky Bluegrass
A five-piece string band from Michigan that plugged bluegrass instruments into the rock and roll ethos and turned acoustic music into a festival-filling force.
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Billy Strings
The kid from small-town Michigan who ran Doc Watson and Bill Monroe through heavy metal and the Grateful Dead — and became the biggest thing to happen to bluegrass in a generation.
Read the guide →Songwriters & Americana
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Neil Young
The restless heart of North American rock, forever swinging between fragile acoustic ballads and the feedback-soaked electric squall of Crazy Horse.
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Tom Petty
Byrds-jangle guitars, Dylan phrasing, and an unshakable knack for the three-minute anthem. Forty years of songs that sound like they were always there.
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Iron & Wine
Sam Beam's hushed, four-track folk that grew from bedroom whispers into lush, gospel-touched arrangements without ever losing its intimacy.
Read the guide →Jam & the Dead Family
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Grateful Dead
The house band of the American counterculture: a tight studio songbook wrapped around a live, improvisational jam that never played the same night twice for thirty years.
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Jerry Garcia
Away from the Grateful Dead, the guitarist made a handful of warm, songful solo albums that quietly became some of his most beloved work, the home of "Deal" and "Sugaree."
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Jerry Garcia Band
Garcia's other band: a loose, soulful group that took songs by Dylan, Motown, and reggae artists and stretched them into long, glowing, transcendent journeys.
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Phish
Four musicians from Vermont who built the most devoted following in the jam world by turning every show into a one-of-a-kind, deeply improvised adventure.
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Railroad Earth
Six New Jersey players who took a Kerouac poem and a bluegrass string band, plugged them into the endless jam, and built two decades of Red Rocks-sized improvisation.
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Dangermuffin
A College of Charleston duo who turned tides, saltwater, and Lowcountry sunlight into two decades of groove-driven, horizon-chasing roots-rock.
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Goose
Five friends from Connecticut who became the most talked-about jam band of their generation, blending indie songcraft with long, exploratory improvisation.
Read the guide →H.O.R.D.E. & '90s Jam
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Dave Matthews Band
A jazz-schooled rhythm section, a violin standing in for lead guitar, and a live-tape culture that turned every show into its own record.
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Blues Traveler
John Popper's runaway harmonica over a road-hardened jam band, the group whose "Run-Around" became the longest-charting single of its era.
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Big Head Todd
Colorado blues-rock lifers, three high school friends who built a platinum record and a devoted following without ever chasing a trend.
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The Samples
A Colorado band whose jangly, reggae-tinged songs and Sean Kelly's tenor built one of rock's most devoted grassroots followings.
Read the guide →Prog, Psych & Art Rock
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Pink Floyd
The band that lost its founding genius, reinvented itself as the biggest and most ambitious act on Earth, and turned the concept album into a world you can live inside.
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Radiohead
Five Oxford schoolfriends who turned one accidental hit about self-loathing into a thirty-year project to reinvent what a rock band could be, and found the sound of modern anxiety.
Read the guide →Groove, Psych & Indie
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Little Barrie
The English power trio behind the Better Call Saul main-title theme — and the deep, greasy fuzz-soul catalogue running underneath it.
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Khruangbin
A trio from Texas who turned dusty soul, Thai funk, dub, and surf guitar into a wordless, hypnotic sound that feels like the soundtrack to a movie only they can see.
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Dope Lemon
Angus Stone slipped out the side door of Australia's biggest folk duo, grew a moustache of guitar fuzz, and built a smoke-filled universe of cats, honey, and pink Cadillacs.
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