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I asked this earlier but no response so I wanted to ask again.

We are talking about progressive blues rock.

What about real progressive blues? Like Robert Johnson or Son House but Prog?
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Originally posted by Smurph Smurph wrote:

I asked this earlier but no response so I wanted to ask again.

We are talking about progressive blues rock.

What about real progressive blues? Like Robert Johnson or Son House but Prog?
If it exists (and there is no logical reason why not), then it wouldn't be Prog Rock just as Progressive Jazz or Progressive Trance isn't, so would not be found in the "Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Recommendations/Featured albums" sub-forum Stern Smile Tongue

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Am I wrong or nobody has mentioned Jethro Tull?
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Didn't check whether it has allready been mentioned but Shine on You Crazy Diamond is according to the form actually a blues. ;)
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Originally posted by AbrahamSapien AbrahamSapien wrote:

Didn't check whether it has allready been mentioned but Shine on You Crazy Diamond is according to the form actually a blues. ;)
Staying on Pink Floyd, Pigs is another blues with a classical blues sequence of chords in the instrumental part.
And when the signature changes from 7/4 to 4/4 Money is a blues as well.


 
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I definitely agree wtih both of you that "classic" Pink Floyd can be easily considered progressive blues rock; I think, as in all prog generes, it's about some rythm and chord progression etc. in the basis of a track (as many people here and you have already said). The band I play guitar in also considers itself as progressive blues rock band - so I feel close to the thread :)
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Getting back to the original thread title -blues is a stylized traditional sound and for it to be 'progressive' it would no longer be blues per se....
I think many prog blues rock bands have been mentioned so far in the thread, and there are many modern blues artists who have 'reinvented' the blues genre so to speak yet are still in the blues tradition: Joe Bonnamassa, Gary Clark Jr., The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes, etc.
I'm not sure how one can sound like Robert Johnson, BB King, or Muddy Waters and be 'progessive' at the same time.
I listened to Wishbone Ash today and for me that's 'progressive blues'.
Maybe some one else can cite an artist doing 'prog blues' ala the old timers...?
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At the risk of giving Pedro apoplexy (again) I can only state The Groundhogs (again), because they were a blues rock band (white English dudes for sure, but they were John Lee Hooker's backing band in the early 60s) and they produced albums that extended the format in progressive ways - marked by their album "Blues Obituary" where they symbolically and musically buried traditional 12-bar blues. They were even marketted as "Progressive Blues Rock" in the late 60s.
 
Another band that comes to mind (because they've been suggested for inclusion here several times [and rejected]) is teh Edgar Broughton Band.
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Points: 20029 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2013 at 06:49
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Gary Clark Jr., The Black Keys
 
I'm a big fan of Gary Clark Jr's album, but some of it is retro rather than progressive. I'm not an expert on The Black Keys but what I've heard sounds like a rehash of early T.Rex to me.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Gary Clark Jr., The Black Keys
 
I'm a big fan of Gary Clark Jr's album, but some of it is retro rather than progressive. I'm not an expert on The Black Keys but what I've heard sounds like a rehash of early T.Rex to me.
 
 
Compared to trad blues they and others are 'progressive' in that they are doing an update on the blues but I don't fundamentally disagree with you, but I don't hear T Rex in the Black Keys.
To me  'progressive' blues or blues rock are the bands already mentioned here and they stray from straight blues.
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