Various, Robert Parker, Aaron Neville, Ernie K-Doe, Lee Dorsey, Chris Kenner, Jessie Hill, The Showmen, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Benny Spellman, Art Neville, The Dixie Cups, Irma Thomas, Huey "Piano" Smith, The Meters, Johnny Adams, Barbara George

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.