Electric Magic

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Member Since: 4/17/2010
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The Roots Of Rock And Roll

Artist Song
Tennessee Ernie Ford   The Shotgun Boogie 
Jerry Lee Lewis   Breathless 
Elvis Presley   Milk Cow Blues 
The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama   Swing Low Sweet Chariot 
Joan Baez   We Shall Over Come 
Howlin' Wolf   I've Got A Woman 
Elmore James   Dust My Broom 
Robert Johnson   Come In My Kitchen 
Hank Williams Sr.   A Mansion On The Hill 
Buck Owens   Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms 
The Darlings   Tom Dooley 
Slim Whitman   Let Me Call You Sweetheart 
Lightnin' Hopkins   How Many More Years I Got To Let You Dog Me Around 
Buddy Holly   Think It Over 
Johnny Cash   Texas Rockabilly Blues 
Muddy Waters   Going Down Slow 
Ella Fitzgerald   That Old Black Magic 
Garnet Mimms   As Long As I Have You 
Andy Griffith   The Fishin' Hole 
Brook Benton   The Boll Weevil Song 
Charley Pride   Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town 
Jack Cook   Blue Moon Of Kentucky 
The Soggy Bottom Boys   Man Of Constant Sorrow 
Gary Stewart   Drinkin' Thing 
Dean Martin   Little Old Wine Drinker Me 
Mel Mcdaniel   Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On 
Eddie Cochran   C'mon Everybody 
Grandpa Jones   Old Mountain Dew 

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At what point did rock and roll merge or what genre started it? They say Elvis Presley is the king of rock and roll, but what would have happened if Jerry Lee Lewis didn't marry his cousin? I am a guitar player and I have been playing for years. My two good friends play in a blues band called The 4 On The Floor and all four of them have a base drum for some good old stompin'. One of my buddy's one day said to me after listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival track `Effigy' and hearing how great John Fogerty's guitar playing is. "Why don't all these so called new guitar player have any roots to their playing?" That got me thinking of a mix that I have put together from my record/CD collection of the Roots of rock and roll, and where it all began..

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doowad
Date: 4/18/2010
Nice mix, I used to feel the same way about groups not having any roots, but there is a whole undercurrent of great country & rock groups which harken back to the beginnings. I love everything here with the exception of JB. Great mix.
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Mixxer
Date: 4/18/2010
A friend used to refer to the "primordial soup that spawned rock and roll" and I think you have a lot of the main ingredients of that soup right here.
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musicfan792
Date: 4/19/2010
rock n roll came out of the blues and r + b. The first rockers came out of the 50s.