If you play anything inside of the larger genre of rock music, the chances are it has descended from the blues in some capacity. Whatever era of rock-based guitar music you love, you’ll be able to trace back a family tree of inspiration to the same place.
What we now know as blues-rock stems from masters such as BB King and Buddy Guy through to players like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix that took the genre and presented it to a larger audience in the 1960s.
