Style of Blues
The British blues revival of the late 1950s was heavily influenced by the raw sound of Delta blues and the amplified, urban style of Chicago blues. At first, the British musicians played the blues in its purest American forms, but by the 1960s they began to build upon the Chicago blues template to create a new, electrifying sound: blues-rock. The Rolling Stones and the Bluesbreakers both started as blues bands and are classic examples of the British blues style.