Dirt Road to PsychedeliaAustin during the 1960's
A folk singing Janis Joplin' the dawning of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' peyote' LSD and the first psychedelic venue in Texas' Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter culture of the 1960s. Seen as nonconformists' Beatnik inspired hipsters were drawn together by folk' country and Blues music while dabbling with peyote and LSD. Traditional values became challenged as they sought a lifestyle outside of the system. Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam were galvanizing factors in 1960s American society' but the advent of psychedelics made it electrified. This documentary tells how it happened in Austin Texas.