Editing British blues (section)

==Significance==
Beside giving a start to many important blues, pop and rock musicians, in spawning blues rock British blues also ultimately gave rise to a host of subgenres of rock, including particularly [[psychedelic rock]], progressive rock,<ref name="S. Millward, 1987 p. 105"/> hard rock and ultimately [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]].<ref name="S. Macpherson, 2005 p. 154">W. Kaufman and H. S. Macpherson, ''Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History'' (ABC-CLIO, 2005), p. 154.</ref> Perhaps the most important contribution of British blues was the surprising re-exportation of American blues back to America, where, in the wake of the success of bands like the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, white audiences began to look again at black blues musicians like Muddy Waters, [[Howlin' Wolf]] and [[John Lee Hooker]], who suddenly began to appeal to middle class white Americans.<ref name="S. Macpherson, 2005 p. 154"/> The result was a re-evaluation of the blues in America which enabled white Americans much more easily to become blues musicians, opening the door to [[Southern rock]] and the development of [[Texas blues]] musicians like [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]].<ref name=Allmusic/>