33 1/3, Chain's Toward the Blues

Based on interviews, scholarly research and personal memoir, this book engages with both the album's music and its context - the rock and blues scene in Australia and globally.

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam war and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Interesting times: the emergence of prog rock and the consolidation of blues rock globally. In this moment Chain, four regional white boys with jazz cred and blues licks recorded the classic Oz Blues single Black and Blue and its bedrock LP, Toward the Blues. Fifty years later it remains a monument in Australian rock history. Based on interviews, scholarly research and memoir this book tells the story and seeks to capture the magic of the moment. What makes an album really special, in this way?