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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– one of the most important bands of the British blues/R&B scene in the 60s. |
| The Big Town Playboys | |
| The Blues Band | |
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– 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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– 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. |
| Spencer Davis | |
| Fleetwood Mac | |
| 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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– drummer and leader of the Keef Hartley Band; also achieving notoriety as John Mayall’s drummer. |
| Paul Jones | |
| Dave Kelly | |
| Jo Ann Kelly | |
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– 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. |
| Paul Lamb | |
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– R&B, jazz and blues band, regularly in the 60s singles and album charts. |
| John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers | |
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– 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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– English blues band on the 60s, launching the careers of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck |
more coming soon …