Josefus Dead Man 1970 Houston, Texas, U S, Psychedelic, blues, hard

Josefus Dead Man 1970 Houston, Texas, U S, Psychedelic, blues, hard Dead Man is a 13th Floor Elevator descent headlong into southernfried bloody Sabbath. Released on the Hookah imprint in 1970, the LPs gaping cranium cover, sludgedup blues, and bonebleached riffs outsold Let It Be, if only locally, being far too psychedelic and skullcrushing for Houstons International Artists label to touch. A Texasbound band except in tracking Dead Man inside the furnace of Phoenix, Josefus strode loud and longhaired amid the oil fields, peddling their own brand of black gold. As US involvement in the Vietnam War peaked and human boots sunk into lunar dust, Josefus powered across the Texas plains, shaking its coliseums awake as openers for the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Heavier by tonnage than both the Stones they cover and I Want You (Shes So Heavy), Doug Tull, Pete Bailey, Ray Turner, and Dave Mitchell watched their 17minute funeral pyre title track burn through statewi