BLUES FOR GREENY

Legends of the music world came together last month for a tribute to the one and only Peter Green at the London Palladium...

- Scott Rowley

The New Blues? You could say that Peter Green invented that back in 1968. Sure, first as guitarist for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (where he replaced Eric Clapton) and then as the guitarist/frontman and creative force behind the original Fleetwood Mac, Green was key to the British Blues Explosion – arguably the third wave of blues after ‘country blues’ (acoustic) and ‘urban blues’ (electric). And, yeah, these days the music of the British Blues Explosion is the orthodoxy – classic rock, dad rock, the preserve of blues bores the world over.