Various, Sonny Terry, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, Boogie Jake, Guitar Nubbit, Champion Jack Dupree, Faye Adams, Little Walter, Denny King, Larry Bright, Clifton Chenier

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.