The Five Americans

Progressions

1969 · Garage Rock · Abnak Records

South Africa · ABST-M-2069

Credits

Written by: Felix Cavaliere, Jackie Edwards, John Durrill, Mike Rabon, Norman Ezell
Engineer: Robin Hood Brians

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

Detroit Garage Revival

Two-guitars-no-bass primitivism, soul covers played wrong, and 7-inches pressed a thousand at a time.

Detroit Proto-Punk

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