Australian blues. The idea wasn't rocket science but it took a rare breed of grassroots journey-folk to give it true grit at the acid end of the '60s. The Melbourne-born pub and festival institution known as Chain was birthed by a who's who of seminal players in those formative years, but it was Phil Manning, Matt Taylor, Barry Harvey and Barry Sullivan who caught lightning with the No. 1 single “Black'n'Blue” and landmark Toward the Blues album in '71. The door has kept swinging but Taylor, Manning and Harvey have maintained an esteemed legacy as a unified front since '95, with bassist Dirk Dubois completing a distinctively raw and potent chemistry on the likes of Mix Up the Oils and Sweet Honey.