In this chapter, I discuss several songs by the Los Angeles-based artists The Byrds, Love, and Tim Buckley in the context of the L.A. psychedelic scene of the 1960s, as they represent diversified and rich-in-style music produced in California. Also, these performers emerged in the creative milieu of the metropolitan environment, embracing stylistically diversified artists substantial for American popular music of the era (like The United States of America, Captain Beefheart, Buffalo Springfield, Steppenwolf, The Electric Prunes, The Seeds, or Frank Zappa). In the lyrical domain, their songs mirrored vital problems the 1960s young people experienced, such as the generation gap, love affairs, teenage relationships, the introspective escapist point of view of a person lost in consumer civilization juxtaposed with the Vietnam War crisis, and the quest for an alternative society. In their music style, they tend to redefine American folk and blues tradition, exceeding the form of traditional song structure by employing Eastern influences, avant-garde and free-form jazz experimentations, and expanding the studio sound of their recordings. Consequently, with the innovative approach to sound and lyrics in the songs, they significantly contributed to psychedelia as a crucial and distinctive rock music sub-genre of the 1960s.