Quicksilver Messenger Service

Live In San Jose 1966

1988 · Blues Rock · Document Records

Italy · DR 009

Credits

Written by: Rufus Thomas, David Freiberg, Gary Duncan, Chester Burnett, Ellas McDaniel, Willie Dixon, Steve Schuster, Buffy Sainte-Marie

San Francisco Psychedelia

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

Memphis Soul

Horn stabs, dragging backbeat, one take: the sound of a house band cutting hits in a converted cinema.

Detroit Proto-Punk

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