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Roots Rock is "a style of rock music that draws material from various American musical traditions including country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
, blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
, and folk
Folk

English Folk "people" is derived from a Germanic languages noun *fulka meaning "people" or "army" . The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages....
." The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to encompass other genres of Americana
Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of roots music fused by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and other external influential styles....
, including early rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, country rock
Country rock

Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of Rock music with country music, with its country origins being initially referenced to the rockabilly music of the 1950s....
, and other related forms.

This list includes performers who have been associated with "roots rock" by music reviewers, music historians, or music journalists:








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Roots Rock is "a style of rock music that draws material from various American musical traditions including country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
, blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
, and folk
Folk

English Folk "people" is derived from a Germanic languages noun *fulka meaning "people" or "army" . The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages....
." The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to encompass other genres of Americana
Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of roots music fused by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and other external influential styles....
, including early rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, country rock
Country rock

Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of Rock music with country music, with its country origins being initially referenced to the rockabilly music of the 1950s....
, and other related forms.

This list includes performers who have been associated with "roots rock" by music reviewers, music historians, or music journalists:

  • Amazing Rhythm Aces
    Amazing Rhythm Aces

    The Amazing Rhythm Aces are an United States music band . The band has characterized their music as "American Music" — rock, country, blues, folk, reggae and Latino....
  • Belle Starr
    Belle Starr

    Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr, better known as Belle Starr , was a famous United States female outlaw....
  • Ben Harper
    Ben Harper

    Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American musician....
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an United States alternative rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for its brand of garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia, and often religiously inspired lyrics, and its influences are groups and musicians such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Rolling...
  • Blue Mountain
    Blue Mountain (band)

    Blue Mountain is an United States alt-country band formed in 1991 in Oxford, MS, Mississippi by husband and wife duo Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt , who is notably the twin sister of John Stirratt, the bass player for the like-minded Americana band Wilco....
  • BoDeans
    BoDeans

    The BoDeans are a rock and roll and roots rock band formed in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1983 by Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas . In 1985, after adding a drummer and a bassist, the band signed a contract with Warner Bros....
  • Bob Dylan
  • Bob Seger
    Bob Seger

    Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
  • Bottle Rockets
  • Brad
    Brad (band)

    Brad is an American Rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992. Brad's sound is influenced by the wide variety of influences brought by its members, including Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, Regan Hagar , Shawn Smith , and Jeremy Toback....
  • Brandon Krandon
  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
  • Buddy Miller
    Buddy Miller

    Buddy Miller is a country music singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee....
  • Chris Isaak
    Chris Isaak

    Christopher Joseph Isaak is an United States rock music musician and occasional actor....
  • Chris Whitley
    Chris Whitley

    Christopher Becker Whitley was an iconic United States singer, songwriter and guitarist.Highly acclaimed by music journalism, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following....
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • Danielle Egnew
    Danielle Egnew

    Danielle Egnew is a musician, actress, vocalist, media personality, psychic, and activist known in the areas of music, film, radio and television for both performing and producing in all four genres....
  • Dave Alvin
    Dave Alvin

    Dave Alvin , is a guitarist, singer and songwriter....
  • Dave Edmunds
    Dave Edmunds

    Dave Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with pub rock and New Wave music, and had numerous popular chart-topper in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll....
  • Dirk Hamilton
  • Golden Smog
    Golden Smog

    Golden Smog is a loosely connected group of musicians comprised, at various times, of members of Soul Asylum, The Replacements, Wilco, The Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, The Honeydogs and Big Star ....
  • Heartsfield
    Heartsfield

    Heartsfield is an United States Southern rock music group.Formed in 1972 by J.C. Hartsfield and Perry Jordan, Heartsfield toured throughout the United States during the '70s and early '80s, spreading their infectious brand of foot-stompin', good-time southern rock to Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, T...
  • Hillstomp
    Hillstomp

    Hillstomp is a punk blues duo from Portland, Oregon, known for unique versions of traditional material and energetic live performances.In December 2005, their album The Woman that Ended the World was named Album of the Year by Portland alternative weekly Willamette Week....
  • Jakob Dylan
    Jakob Dylan

    Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and as the son of legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan....
  • John Fogerty
    John Fogerty

    John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
  • John Mellencamp
    John Mellencamp

    John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, is a Grammy-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter, musician, artist and occasional actor....
  • Kathleen Edwards
    Kathleen Edwards

    Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Her 2003 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates"....
  • Krister Axel
    Krister Axel

    Krister Axel is an American musician and poet....
  • Lenore
    Lenore

    "Lenore" is a poem by the American author, Edgar Allan Poe. Though it began as a different poem, "A Paean," it was not published as "Lenore" until 1843....
  • Los Lobos
    Los Lobos

    Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  • Molly Hatchet
    Molly Hatchet

    Molly Hatchet is an United States southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1971. They are widely known for their hit song "Flirtin' with Disaster " from the Flirtin' with Disaster....
  • Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • Nick Lowe
    Nick Lowe

    Nick Lowe is an English people singer-songwriter, musician and Record producer.A pivotal figure in United Kingdom pub rock, punk rock and new wave music, Lowe has sound recording and reproduction a string of well-reviewed solo albums....
  • O.A.R.
    Of a Revolution

    Of a Revolution, better known as O.A.R., United States rock band consisting of Marc Roberge , Chris Culos , Richard On , Benj Gershman , Jerry DePizzo ....
  • Paper Sun
    Paper Sun

    "'Paper Sun'" was the British band Traffic's debut single, released in May 1967.The B-side "Giving to You" was later released in a modified version on their album Mr....
  • Sally Jaye
    Sally Jaye

    Sally Jaye is an American folk singer-songwriter who has recorded one major solo album, "Amarillo," but has also appeared on several other albums as a member of a group....
  • Shawn Pander
  • Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
  • Skydiggers
    Skydiggers

    Skydiggers are a Canada roots rock band from Toronto, Ontario....
  • Son Volt
    Son Volt

    Son Volt is an alternative country group formed by Jay Farrar in 1994 after the breakup of the band Uncle Tupelo....
  • Spooky Tooth
    Spooky Tooth

    Spooky Tooth were an England progressive rock band from the late 1960s. They faded into obscurity afterwards....
  • Steve Earle
    Steve Earle

    Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle is an United States singer-songwriter, well known for his rock music and country music, as well as his political views....
  • Stone the Crows
    Stone the Crows

    Stone The Crows was a blues musical ensemble formed in Glasgow in late 1969....
  • The Allman Brothers Band
    The Allman Brothers Band

    The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
  • The Band
    The Band

    The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
  • The Blasters
    The Blasters

    The Blasters are a rock and roll music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California by brothers Phil Alvin and Dave Alvin , with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman....
  • The Georgia Satellites
  • The Shackshakers
  • The Steepwater Band
    The Steepwater Band

    The Steepwater Band is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1998 by the trio of Jeff Massey , Joe Winters , and Tod Bowers . The band took their name from a cargo vessel that Massey sighted in a port on Lake Michigan....
  • The Wallflowers
    The Wallflowers

    The Wallflowers are a Grammy Award-winning rock music band from Los Angeles, California....
  • Threes and Nines
  • Traffic
    Traffic (band)

    Traffic was an England rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group influenced by The Beatles when releasing early pop rock singles , and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as musical keyboard, reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz an...
  • Train
    Train

    A train is a connected series of vehicles that move along a track to rail transport from one place to another. The track usually consists of two rail tracks, but might also be a monorail or magnetic levitation train guideway....
  • The Traveling Wilburys
    Traveling Wilburys

    Traveling Wilburys were a 1980s Supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. The band recorded two albums during the two years they were together....
  • Uncle Tupelo
    Uncle Tupelo

    Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college....
  • Webb Wilder
    Webb Wilder

    Webb Wilder is a musician who famously mixes the sounds of Country music, Surf music and Rock and roll known as "swampedelic". He also produced an award-winning collection of short films under the title of Corn Flicks....
  • Wilco
    Wilco

    Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
  • ZZ Top
    ZZ Top

    ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....


See also

  • Roots rock
    Roots rock

    Roots rock is a term recently used to describe "a style of rock music that draws material from various American musical traditions including country music, blues, and folk." The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to encompass other Americana , including early rock and roll, country rock, and other genres of rock with traditional roots....