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Acid blues
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'''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 music|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 incorperate Funk and Soul elements such as Jimi Hendrix, [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] and [[BB King]].[http://www.yearoftheblues.org/radio/index.asp?id={DCA134AA-105A-4161-BDD2-F0C7F2BFF029}&] 

==History==

Acid Blues is a mixture of the music backgrounds of Rock, [[Soul]], [[Jazz]], [[Funk]], and [[Blues Rock]]. Pioneers (''those who are identified with it'') of Acid Blues include: the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] and [[Double Trouble (band)|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.
* [[Captain Beefheart]], tracks such as Korn Ring Finger, Plastic Factory
* [[Cream (band)|Cream]]
* [[Grateful Dead]], songs like Wharf Rat, Cumberland Blues, China Cat Sunflower
* [[Mountain (band)]]
* [[Led Zeppelin]], songs like Dazed and Confused, Ten Years Gone
* [[Little Feat]], tracks like Forty Four Blues/How Many More Years
* [[Jimi Hendrix Experience]], songs like Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), Bold as Love, Third Stone from the Sun 
* [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]]
* [[Tom Waits]], songs like Way Down in the Hole, More Than Rain, Yesterday Is Here
* [[Marshall Lawrence]]
* [[Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones]]
* [[Red Red Meat]]
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[[Category:Acid Jazz]]
[[Category:Jazz genres]]
[[Category:Blues music genres]]
[[Category:Blues-rock]]

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