THERE should have been the whiff of patchouli in the air and tie-dye tee shirts on the merchandise desk as The Wirebirds took us back to Bill Graham’s iconic Fillmore West venue, circa 1969, at Cirencester’s Brewery Blues on Friday.

Opening with the Grace Slick/Jefferson Airplane counter culture classic White Rabbit, now very much in the mainstream as the soundtrack to the latest Citreon Cactus car advert, this very accomplished band treated us to a classy set of West Coast psychedelia from the period.

Singer Jenny Haan was, in a previous life, one of the original rock chicks of the 1970s, headlining major US festivals with her band Babe Ruth, and her powerhouse vocals are still intact as she showed on the stomping Janis Joplin encore Move Over.

Along the way there were other treasured highlights including Allan Stroud’s spacy guitar work on Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child and the nifty harmonica playing of Jay Myrdal on a rollicking version of The Doors favourite Roadhouse Blues.

The Wirebirds will be welcome back to Brewery Blues any time.

Having shaken the flowers out of our hair, blues troubadour Matt Woosey took us back even further – to the 1930s and that infamous crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the legendary Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil.

Woosey’s most obvious nod to blues mythology is his crowd pleasing Black Smoke Rising, a clever mash-up of countless old lyrics and licks.

But this was a night when the newly-married and, dare I say it, more mellow Woosey introduced us to tracks on his forthcoming album Wildest Dreams, aided and abetted by great pal Dave Small providing the percussion on beat box.

It is impossible not to like Woosey’s room-filling voice, skilful guitar picking and genial banter between songs.

The set was laced with real and imaginary love songs (Wildest Dreams and Nowhere is Home), the irresistibly catchy Hook Line and Sinker and the self explanatory Same Old Blues and I’ve Seen the Bottom.

Salisbury folk musician Antoine Architeuthis opened the show with his engaging vocals backed by an Irish bouzouki. Variety lives at John Drummond’s Brewery Blues nights.

Matt Woosey's latest album will be available to fans when he supports Aynsley Lister at a concert at Vonnies, in Charlton Kings, on November 19.