The Ceyleib People

Ry Cooder's Ceyleib People are arguably one of the more innovative groups of the late 60's. Taking the loping blues romp of Captain Beefheart and filtering it through Indian music, the group created a very short album, Tanyet what would be an EP now, of two 10 minute parts. For 1967, this is definitely hippy experimental music, hopping from guitar riffs to sitar drones to mellotron rambling and back without regard for convention. It's almost as if there was an intent to fuse the influences of Ravi Shankar with those of the old blues legends