Various, Norman Greenbaum, Peter, Paul & Mary, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Andersen, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, The Fifth Avenue Band, Frank Zappa, John Sebastian, The Mothers, Joni Mitchell

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.

San Francisco Psychedelia

Ballroom bands who stretched blues and folk into twenty-minute jams, pressed before anyone edited them down.