Bobby Gillespie, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Donnie Fritts, J.J. Cale, The Dramatics, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Crazy Horse, Ry Cooder, Percy Sledge, Lee Hazlewood, Al Green, Thin Lizzy, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mott The Hoople, Boz Scaggs, The Chi-Lites, Little Feat, The Grateful Dead, Charlie Rich

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.