Acid blues

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 jazz 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.

• Blues Traveler, the acid blues label attributable to the wild harmonica soloing of lead singer John Popper
• Captain Beefheart, tracks such as Korn Ring Finger, Plastic Factory
• Cream
• Grateful Dead, songs like Wharf Rat, Cumberland Blues, China Cat Sunflower
• Gun Club, songs like Ghost on the Highway, Promise Me, Preaching the Blues
• Mountain (band)

• 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
• 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

Notes

See also

• Acid Jazz
• Blues
• Blues Rock
• Hard rock
• Jazz
• Jimi Hendrix
• List of rock genres
• Rock music

External links

fr:Acid Blues