Blues Rock Music with Gritty Guitar

Mostly, yes: roughly three-quarters of the tracks are instrumental, and most of them say so in the title, such as Stubborn Son's Thick as Blood (Instrumental) and Jesse Morrow's New Blues (Instrumental). The exceptions with vocals include C-Leb & the Kettle Black's Flat Black Cadillac and The Blue News' Running Back To You. That split makes the collection unusually easy to use as underscore, which is exactly the job the tagging reflects.

Electric guitars and percussion lead every track; keyboards, winds and acoustic instruments appear only occasionally. Blues rock is the dominant sub-genre with hard rock, southern rock, indie and roots rock around the edges, and sounds-like references name the Black Keys, Jack White, Alabama Shakes and Arctic Monkeys, plus a general retro rock tag. Exciting is by far the most common mood, followed by swagger, so expect riff-driven attitude rather than slow twelve-bar laments.

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Automobiles, road trip, country life, landscape, tracking shot and underscore are the theme tags applied across the collection, which is why advertisers cutting truck and car spots or filmmakers scoring drives through open country gravitate to it. Smaller tags like moving on and resentment cover narrative moments. The Grizzled Mighty's Miles of Cocaine (Instrumental) and Jonathan Clay's Our Time Is Coming (Instrumental) are typical of the driving, guitar-led feel that suits a long tracking shot.

Tracks average about three minutes twenty seconds, so they are full-length cuts rather than pre-made stingers. Because most are instrumental and built on electric guitar and percussion, editors have plenty of material to pull a 15, 30 or 60-second section without a vocal phrase getting chopped mid-line. For a spot with voiceover, start with the instrumentals from Stubborn Son or Black Oil Brothers and let the guitar sit under the read.