Electric blues
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Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bon
John Lee Hooker created his own blues style and renewed it several times during his long career.
Clapton in 2008, one of the major figures of the British blues boom in the 1960s.
Johnny Winter in 2007.
Stevie Ray Vaughan was the most prominent figure in Texas electric blues in the late 20th century
T-Bone Walker
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Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter, and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. In
Electric blues
…by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s. Their styles developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and post-World War…
Walker at the American Folk Blues Festival in Hamburg, March 1972