Captain Beefheart, The Magic Band

Safe As Milk

1982 · Blues Rock · PRT

UK · NCP 1004

Credits

Producer: Bob Krasnow, Richard Perry
Written by: Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann, Jerry Handley, Robert Pete Williams
Engineer: Hank Cicalo
Cut by: Tony Bridge

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

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.