CICADELIC RECORDS

In the 60's, Abilene, Texas had a thriving music scene. Bands enamored with the British invasion sound of the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Beatles formed in droves. The top band in Abilene...

From 1965 to 1967, McAllen was the happening scene for some of the wildest music to emanate from Texas in the 60's. The label that played host to these bands was Jimmy Nichol's Pharaoh Records and...

In 1966 Dallas was a Mecca for great bands and two of the best, the Exotics and the Esquires, are included on this album. The Exotics began as a rock and roll band in 1959, but by 1966 were recording...

Since Washington DC was the home for the Fallen Angels, the band did not miss out on radicalizing the 1968 Presidential elections-letting their disparaging views on the LBJ and his "Great Society" be...

(2-CD set) Lightnin' Hopkins woke up The Dead when he played San Francisco in the 1960's and his song "Wake Up The Dead" is the centerpiece of this two and a half hour journey into the electrified...

Lightnin' Hopkins recorded over a dozen songs for the Clarity Music Company at the "ACA" Recording Studio in Houston in April of 1969. These songs ranged from new originals, such as "Born In The...

These L.A. mates of the Human Expression churned out an utterly unique blend of psych, garage and funk. A still-sealed copy of their 1970 LP (which was pressed in very limited numbers) recently went...

The best known girl group in Texas during the late 60's was the Heart Beats of Lubbock. All seven recordings by the Heart Beats are included on this album, along with other great female led bands...

Featured on many of the classic garage comps, the JuJus became Western Michigan's most revered garage band. Here are all their singles and a heap of unissued cuts (plus a nice retrospective from band...

The Mad Hatters and Fallen Angels were the first bands Barry Seidel signed to his music company Traydel Productions in the mid-'60s. These 19 singles and rarities blur the lines between garage-rock,...

This Chicago label moved from bluesy garage-band stuff to mind-expanding psych-pop in '66; here are 22 of the collectible cuts that came next. Includes Open Up Your Mind Nuchez; the Woods Nickel Bag;...

The Outcasts (of San Antonio) whose signature song I'm in Pittsburgh (And It's Raining) has been covered by numerous neo-60's bands is just one of their 12 great recordings on Route 1966, and all of...