Aug 21, 2019· While the blues-rock trailblazers of the 1960s received their inspiration from the blues giants of the 1950s like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Boy Williamson, the blues-rock artists of the 1970s would, in turn, be influenced by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Jimi Hendrix As it smoothed out some of the rough edges of the previous decade, blues-rock would become much more ...
