The man who linked the folk scene of the fifties with the Chicago electric blues scene and shortly after was a fundamental piece in California psychedelia. Nick Gravenites was born on the Chicago  south-side in 1938 and in the early sixties his concern joined that of musicians like Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield who, together with Elvin Bishop, Jeremy Arnold, Sam Lay and Mark Naaftalin, opened the doors to the blues for white format with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In San Francisco Gravenites and Bloomfield formed the transcendental Electric Flag, he produced John Cipollina's Quicksilver Messenger Service, he played with his friend Charlie Musselwhite and composed for Janis Joplin as part of Big Brother And The Holding Company . As a songwriter he has composed more than three hundred songs that have