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Thread started 12/05/09 12:46pm

2elijah

Tribute to Rock 'n' Roll Greats

Rock 'n' Roll...what is it? Where did it originate?

http://www.silver-dragon-...m/rnr1.htm

Origins of Rock and Roll


The stereotypical rock and roll song uses a fast hard driving offbeat rhythm “borrowed” from gospel music, blues influenced acoustic or electric guitars and lyrics laced with sexual innuendo. The songs were sometimes written by a black author and remade with a white singer that was almost always inferior to the original version. Early rock and roll was much different however. It was heavily piano based and sax driven music that was a bit more heavily influenced by the blues groups of the time and played in underground clubs or "juke joints" by Rock and Roll - The birth of rock music musicians like Big Joe Turner, Chuck Berry, Roy Brown, Bill Haley, Fats Domino and Ike Turner. By 1949 the genre had become a huge movement in the music underground replacing the boogie-woogie style rhythm and blues of the early 40’s with the new faster uptempo fusion of gospel and blues that was now being called rock and roll.

In ‘52 and '53, rock and roll was known by many Americans for its sappy love ballads usually sung by teen-aged crooners with names like the Ravens, and the Cardinals. Unlike many listeners young people had discovered that on the back of these albums were the real rock and roll songs












Charlie Patton (1929)




Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Down By the Riverside




http://www.history-of-rock.com/
Rock-and-Roll (räk'n roll') n. first so used (1951) by Alan Freed, Cleveland disc jockey, taken from the song "My Baby Rocks Me with a Steady Roll". The use of rock, roll, rock and roll, etc., with reference to sexual intercourse, is traditional in blues, a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950's from rhythm and blues, characterized by the use of electric guitars, a strong rhythm with an accent on the offbeat, and youth-oriented lyrics. A form of popular music arising from and incorporating a variety of musical styles, especially rhythm and blues, country music, and gospel. Originating in the United States in the 1950s, it is characterized by electronically amplified instrumentation, a heavily accented beat, and relatively simple phrase structure

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Reply #1 posted 12/05/09 12:48pm

2elijah

Hound Dog Taylor and "Little Walter"


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2elijah

Son House

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Black Snake Moan: Blind Lemon Jefferson

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Bill Haley
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Big Joe Turner
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Elvis Presley: Shake, Rattle and Roll

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Ike and Tina Turner

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Jerry Lee Lewis

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Reply #10 posted 12/05/09 1:32pm

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Great thread. thumbs up!

Robert Johnson...



...Terraplane Blues


Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons (w/Lena Horne in the middle)...



...Boogie Woogie Dream


Louis Jordan...



...Ain't That Just Like A Woman


T-Bone Walker...



...I Got A Break Baby


Roy Brown...



...Good Rockin' Tonight


Wild Bill Moore...



...Rock and Roll


John Lee Hooker...



...Boogie Chillen


Fats Domino...



...The Fat Man





Music for adventurous listeners


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StarMon

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✮The NFL...frohornsNational Funk League✮
✮The Home of Outta Control Funk & Roll✮
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2elijah said:

Son House

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Is that a National Steel Guitar, that Son's playing.
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StarMon said:

2elijah said:

Son House

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Is that a National Steel Guitar, that Son's playing.

It looks like that model he's playing is a...



...Duolian Resonator (this is a copy of the originals made around 1932)




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Reply #17 posted 12/05/09 3:40pm

DerekH

Don't forget about Bo Diddley:





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Reply #18 posted 12/05/09 3:59pm

2elijah

Thanks guys! for the contributions to this thread. Enjoying the additions. biggrin
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Reply #19 posted 12/05/09 4:37pm

2elijah

Muddy Waters




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Chuck Berry

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Reply #21 posted 12/05/09 4:50pm

2elijah

Timmy I know you posted one on Howlin' Wolf already, but this song is my favorite from "Howlin' Wolf"


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Reply #23 posted 12/25/09 5:27pm

Harlepolis

GREAT thread, 2elijah thumbs up!

I'd like to add Jimi Hendrix' main inspiration, Mr.T-Bone Walker into the mix...




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Reply #24 posted 12/25/09 8:57pm

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Here's a video of Buddy Guy playing a gig in NYC with some unknown bum in the audience. wink




OK, so maybe the title gave it way! cool
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