Artist	Song
Big Brother & The Holding Company	Ball and Chain
from Cheap Thrills (1968)
Cream	Crossroads
from Gold: Cream (2005)
The Allman Brothers Band	Whipping Post
from A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 (1973)
Humble Pie	I Don't Need No Doctor (Live)
from Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore (Live) (1971)
John Mayall	Room to Move
from Turning Point (1969)
The J. Geils Band	Whammer Jammer (Live) [Extended Applause]
from Best of the J. Geils Band (1979)
Johnny Winter	Highway 61 Revisited
from Second Winter (Legacy Edition) (1969)
Fleetwood Mac	Long Grey Mare
from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (Remastered) (1968)
Delaney & Bonnie	comin' Home
from D & B Together (1970)
The Electric Flag	Killing Floor
from A Long Time Comin' (1968)
Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield	Albert's Shuffle
from Well Done (1968)
Joe Cocker	With a Little Help from My Friends
from Joe Cocker: The Anthology (1969)
The Animals	Boom Boom
from Retrospective (1964)
Ten Years After	I Want to Know
from Ten Years After: The Anthology (1967-1971) (1967)
Free	Walk In My Shadow
from Molten Gold: The Anthology (Box Set) (1968)
Blodwyn Pig	It's Only Love
from Pigthology (2004)
Small Faces	What'cha Gonna Do About It
from Small Faces (Remastered) (1966)
Savoy Brown	Train to Nowhere
from Blue Matter (1969)
Long John Baldry	Seventh Son
from Everything Stops for Tea (1972)

Comment:

After years spent learning Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters licks note for note, a new generation — Clapton, Beck, Allman, Butterfield, and more — extracted the blues not out of their voices, but from their guitars. They bent notes like sharecroppers’ backs and lashed strings to make their amps scream and cry. The guitarist as superhero was born right here, emerging from the keening wail of Jimi’s Stratocaster in “Hey Joe” and Duane Allman’s Gibson Les Paul, hollering from the depths of hell in “Whipping Post.” And just when you thought it couldn’t get any heavier, ex-Yardbird Jimmy Page launched Led Zeppelin, opening the skies for some heavy metal thunder.

Photo: Cream (C. Michael Ochs Archives.com)

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