A Gathering of Promises is a history of acid rock and psychedelic music in and from the state of Texas; focusing largely on its mid-1960s origins with the 13th Floor Elevators and contemporaries such as the Golden Dawn; the Red Crayola and Bubble Puppy; and following its development to the present day and the popularity of the annual Austin Psych Fest. Grounded in a strong social; cultural and historical context; the book asks how Texas produced some of the most extreme and influential psych of any era despite a prevailing social ethos of Christian conservatism and the strictest drug laws of any American state. It looks at how this environment shaped and affected the music; alongside the Texan frontier spirit and its championing of expansion; freedom and individualism.
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