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.
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