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| Acid Blues, Psychedelic Blues |
| Stylistic origins |
Blues-rock, rock, soul, funk, jazz, psychedelic music |
| Cultural origins |
Early 60's United Kingdom and United States |
| Typical instruments |
Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Drums, Keyboards |
| Mainstream popularity |
High in 1960's, decline since the popularity of Alternative Rock |
| Regional scenes |
| UK, USA |
Acid blues or psychedelic blues is a sub-genre of Blues music that has been recently coined in the last few years. It combines styles such as rock, soul, funk and jazz. Although believed to have been coined in Seattle, Washington, it lives through the music of many past artists from as far back as the 60's, mainly blues rock and acid rock artists such as Jimi Hendrix, and also Blues artists who incorporate funk and soul elements such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King.[1]
History
Acid blues is a mixture of the music backgrounds of rock, soul, jazz, funk, and blues rock. Pioneers of acid blues include: the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
List of acid blues artists
Artists in this list have assimilated sounds of psychedelia while re-interpreting more traditional blues sounds in some of their recordings.
- Little Feat, tracks like Forty Four Blues/How Many More Years
- Pink Floyd, tracks like Biding My Time, Interstellar Overdrive, Careful with that Axe, Eugene(not really),Seamus
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, songs like Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Purple Haze, Bold as Love, Third Stone from the Sun
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Velvet Underground, tracks like Some Kinda Love, What Goes On
- Tom Waits, songs like Way Down in the Hole, More Than Rain, Yesterday Is Here
- Marshall Lawrence
- Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
- Red Red Meat
- Radio Moscow
- Psychedelic Mooj, songs like Spirit of 1974 and Nothing Can Be Found
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