Tag Archives: Al Kooper

No American rock and roll group ever began with just as much daring or musical promise as Bloodstream, Perspiration & Tears, or understood their potential more fully — and blew everything as quickly. Off their origins being a jazz-rock test that wowed critics and listeners, they continued — within a …

Among the initial album-oriented, “underground” groupings in america, the Blues Task offered a power brew of rock and roll, blues, folk, pop, and also some jazz, classical, and psychedelia throughout their short heyday within the mid-’60s. It isn’t quite accurate to categorize them being a blues-rock group, although they do …