Various, Casey Kelly, Atomic Rooster, Jobriath, Skymonters, Hamilton Camp, Jo Jo Gunne, Mickey Newbury, Harry Chapin, Joni Mitchell, Painter

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.