Blues Rock 2000s Albums

Chickenfoot’s debut channels the experience and distinct personalities of its members into unpretentious hard-rock energy.

Black Ice finds AC/DC returning after a long break with thick riffs and Brian Johnson’s full-throated voice firmly in place.

Subconscious In Xperience combines Blindman’s detailed guitar phrases, clear keyboards and emotionally forward vocals.

Forever More keeps Tesla’s live-band directness while adding darker melodies and heavier guitar weight.

Good to Be Bad returns Whitesnake to blues-rooted hard rock, built around David Coverdale’s voice with its mixture of power and sensuality.

Real to Reel is best heard not simply as a covers-related entry, but as a record that shows how TESLA translates outside material into its own sense of

Pain for the Pleasure joins Blindman’s expansive vocal lines, melodic guitar, and full keyboards into dramatic melodic hard rock.

Honkin’ on Bobo revisits blues standards as rough, living Aerosmith rock and roll.

Into the Now returns Tesla to the kind of rock and roll built on unadorned riffs, sturdy rhythm and seasoned vocals.

Soul Talks, Melodies Walk layers smooth vocals, full keyboards and poised guitar into hard rock that values melody.

Turning Back layers soaring vocals, bright keyboards and lyrical guitar with great order and polish.

Just Push Play brings digital textures and pop-minded hooks into Aerosmith’s blues-rooted framework.

BLINDMAN combines intricate guitar phrasing with lyrical melody in a polished Japanese melodic-hard-rock record.

Stiff Upper Lip strips AC/DC back to the blunt force of its blues-rooted hard rock.

…in the dark presents Blindman’s melancholy-rich melodic hard rock in a compact form.

Pleasure to Burn joins Doug Aldrich’s bluesy, full-bodied guitar work to Keith St.

Nuclear Cowboy places John Sykes’s cutting guitar tone at the center of a heavy, confrontational solo set.