The Blues-Rock Explosion, the first volume in a series covering Sixties rock music, offers fascinating profiles of 42 artists, ranging from the influential and popular Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield and the Allman Brothers to lesser-known contributors including Bakerloo and Black Cat Bones. This comprehensive collection, which concentrates on 1960-1970 - a vibrant period where blues music enjoyed a significant renaissance due largely to young white musicians who brought a rock `n' roll intensity to the blues - is unrivaled in its attention to detail and accuracy. Along with complete biographies, U.S. and UK discographies and the artists' critical and commercial impact, the Blues-Rock Explosion opens a window to the often riveting interpersonal dynamics that shaped and ultimately defined combustible groups like the Yardbirds, Pretty Things, Downliners Sect, the Graham Bond Organisation, Cream, Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, that renowned launching pad for future guitar heroes like Mick Taylor, Peter Green and Slowhand' himself.