12’ Bar Ramblin’ #52 'More Psychedelic Blues' with Stefan Matussek 20.10.2020

In the second half of the 1960s a new movement was emerging in the musical and
cultural landscape. The Acid Tests, the Merry Pranksters, and the promotion of
the psychedelic LSD and the overall potential of consciousness exploration by
the likes of Timothy Leary and Alan Watts lead to a massive social, artistic and
musical change influenced by psychedelics. Blues music was not exempt, and it
also adapted to this in different ways. On the one hand there were the emerging
psychedelic-rock bands that included blues songs in their repertoire. On the
other hand there were blues acts who either were interested in experimentation
and explored these new influences, or were pushed by their record label to
release albums in this style. While this phenomenon did not result in a new
sub-genre or regional style, it still spawned half a decade of wild and fuzzy
blues music that deserves mention as an ...

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