Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:41
Size: 141.2 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[2:38] 1. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
[3:56] 2. Mighty Joe Young - Rock Me Baby
[4:19] 3. John Lee Hooker - Shake It Baby
[2:44] 4. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
[3:03] 5. Little Walter - Rocker
[1:42] 6. Snooks Eaglin - Shake, Rattle And Roll
[2:44] 7. Earl King - Come Let The Good Times Roll
[2:13] 8. Howlin' Wolf - Shake For Me
[4:34] 9. Robert Cray - Foul Play
[3:23] 10. Johnny Copeland - Cold, Cold Winter
[2:18] 11. Chuck Berry - Maybellene
[3:41] 12. Lucky Peterson - It's Your Thing
[2:19] 13. Bo Diddley - I Need You Baby
[3:35] 14. James Cotton - The Hucklebuck
[3:40] 15. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Blues Power
[2:46] 16. Etta James, Harvey Fuqua - Spoonful
[3:04] 17. Earl King - Let's Make A Better World
[2:21] 18. Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
[3:05] 19. Muddy Waters - Forty Days And Forty Nights
[3:26] 20. B.B. King - A Whole Lot Of Lovin'
The music we know as rock and roll emerged in the mid 1950s, although its advent had been on the horizon for at least a decade. A quarter of the American population moved during World War II, and that brought southern, rural, sacred and secular traditions into new contact with urban based music and audiences. The product of many regional musical scenes and independent record labels, rock and roll emerged in Memphis, Los Angeles, Shreveport, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, and dozens of other cities. It was, in historian Charlie Gillett’s words, the Sound of the City.
Rock and roll drew on many different styles. Combining the boogie woogie rhythms of R&B, the hillbilly twang of country, the fervor of gospel and the moans of the blues, the new mongrel music excited a worldwide generation of young listeners, while upsetting established social, cultural and musical authorities. The charisma and musical bravado of early rock and roll heroes such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard inspired fans and young musicians alike. With the maturing of an unprecedentedly vast and affluent teenage audience, rock and roll music became the sound of young America and soon spread around the world.
It is difficult today to understand the bitter criticism the new music generated. The popular music establishment, anchored in the lucrative venues of Hollywood and Broadway, saw the challenge as both aesthetic and economic. Their spokesmen dismissed the music for its supposed simplicity and crudity; eventually they went so far as to charge, falsely, that rock and roll dominated their airwaves because promoters bribed disc jockeys. Radio stations in turn often refused to play the new music, claiming that its lyrics promoted sex and delinquency. Pallid “cover” versions by mainstream artists copied rock and roll hit songs, while draining them of their musical vitality, energy, and above all, their overt indebtedness to black musical traditions. Moral authorities, black and white, were quick to condemn the music for its supposed sexual references, and they targeted key performers from Elvis Presley to Fats Domino for censorship or ridicule. Finally, columnists, critics, educators and police all feared the overt racial mixing of not only the music, but its audiences. At a time when American race relations were severely tested by massive white Southern resistance to integration, and northern dismissal of black rights, rock and roll remade integration in a cultural form. Sexual, working class and multi-racial, rock and roll transgressed the most fiercely guarded social boundaries of the time. ~Charles McGovern
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