Various, Big Maybelle, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Grover Mitchell, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Little Irvin, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Billy Williams, The Kelly Four, Young Jessie, Herb Zane, Mike Lawing, Gino Parks, Ruby Lee, Gary U.S. Bonds, Nellie Rutherford, The Masonics

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.