British blues
The
British blues is a type of
blues music that originated in the late
1950s. American blues musicians like
B.B. King and
Howlin' Wolf were massively popular in Britain at the time. British teens began playing the blues, imitating various styles of American blues. Gradually, a new distinctly British sound arose by the mid-
1960s. This form of the blues, and various derivatives, became massively popular in the US, leading to the
British Invasion.