Contemporary Blues Essentials
Essential artists and recordings from the contemporary blues era, 1980-today.
Contemporary Blues Artists
The blues suffered a commercial downturn during the 1970s. Although the genre was still robust creatively through the decade, the increased popularity of R&B, funk and hard rock, combined with the advancing ages of modern era blues artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker lessened the commercial fortunes of the genre. It was the arrival of guitarslinger Stevie Ray Vaughan du…
The blues suffered a commercial downturn during the 1970s. Although the genre was still robust creatively through the decade, the increased popularity of R&B, funk and hard rock, combined with the advancing ages of modern era blues artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker lessened the commercial fortunes of the genre. It was the arrival of guitarslinger Stevie Ray Vaughan du…