Chain's Toward the Blues

by Peter Beilharz

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways, taking on a style later referred to as Oz blues, or Oz indigo. The emergence of prog rock and the consolidation of blues rock globally made for interesting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501390139
• ISBN13: 9781501390135
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"