Blues Rock 2000s Albums

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

Great White's eleventh album, out in Europe on 13 March 2009, introduced bassist Scott Snyder and was Jack Russell's last studio album with the band.

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.

Great White's tenth studio album, released by Shrapnel on 17 July 2007, was its first in eight years, made after the band reunited in January 2007.

Real to Reel is a covers album on which TESLA takes up the 1960s and 1970s rock classics at its roots and plays them in its earthy, bluesy sound.

Black Stone Cherry's debut album, issued by Roadrunner Records on 18 July 2006. Three singles were taken from it.

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

Eagles of Death Metal's second album, released in the United States on 11 April 2006. Every song is by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme.

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.