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{{Infobox Music genre
|name    = Acid Blues, Psychedelic Bblues
|color   = White
|bgcolor = #0000E1
|stylistic_origins = [[Blues-rock]], [[rock music|rock]], [[soul music|soul]], [[funk]], [[jazz]], [[psychedelic music]]
|cultural_origins  = Early 60's [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]
|instruments     = [[Electric Guitar]], [[Bass Guitar]], [[Vocals]], [[Drums]], [[Keyboard instrument|Keyboards]]
|popularity      = High in 1960's, decline since the popularity of [[Alternative Rock]]
|derivatives     = 
|subgenrelist    = 
|subgenres       = 
|fusiongenres    = 
|regional_scenes = [[UK]], [[USA]]
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|other_topics    = 
}}

'''Acid blues''' or '''psychedelic blues''' is a sub-genre of B[[blues music]] that has been recently coined in the last few years. It combines styles such as [[Rock music|rock]], [[soul music|soul]], [[funk]] and [[jazz]]. Althoughis believed to have been coined in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (U.S. state)|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]].[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 music|soul]], [[jazz]], [[funk]], and [[blues rock]]. Pioneers <!--those who are identified with it--> of acid blues include: the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Led Zeppelin, 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.
* [[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
* [[Canned Heat]], tracks such as My Mistake, Going up the Country, On the Road Again, Parthenogenesis and Refried Boogie
* [[Cream (band)|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)|Mountain]]

* [[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, Improvised theme from the film JMac
* [[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 Foundn the last few years.{{cn}} It combines styles such as [[Rock music|rock]], [[soul music|soul]], [[funk]] and [[jazz]].{{cn}} 

==See also==
* [[Acid Jazz]]
* [[Blues]]⏎
* [[Blues Rock]]
* [[Hard rock]]
* [[Jazz]]
* [[Jimi Hendrix]]
* [[List of rock genres]]
* [[Rock music]]⏎
==Sources==
[http://www.yearoftheblues.org/radio/index.asp?id={DCA134AA-105A-4161-BDD2-F0C7F2BFF029}& ''The Blues the radio series''], retrieved 25 July 2010.

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