Lynnea Barry and friends deliver an evening of classics from what is often identified by popular music historians as the Roots Rock movement of the late 1960s. The impetus got its start in 1966 when, as many rock artists moved towards expansive and experimental psychedelia, Bob Dylan spearheaded the back-to-basics roots revival when he went to Nashville to record the album Blonde on Blonde, which was followed by John Wesley Harding (1967) and Nashville Skyline (1969). Other groups in the same groove included Dylan's longstanding backup unit, The Band (lead by the late great Robbie Robertson), and Creedence Clear Water Revival—both of which mixed basic rock and roll with folk, country, and blues—as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, and any of a number of American and British groups who moved during that period to a roots-tinged sound and cultural vibe: Canned Heat, The Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Brand, Gram Parson, Neil Young, The Eagles, Emmylou Harris, Linda Rondstadt, the Doobie Brothers, and many more. Even The Grateful Dead, so much assoiated with psychedelic rock for most of their career, took a turn into Roots during the period of Working Man's Dead and American Beauty.
The genre is broadly defined and massively rich, but clearly defined a sound and aesthetic field that indelibly shaped and significant sector of the American pop psyche in into the early 1970s. Barry and company take that on, with the first of what will certainly be a periodic series of Roots Rock projects well into the future.
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