Artist	Song
Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin’ Tonight
from Rhythm & Blues 1945-1951 - Music Sampler Vol. 1 (2006)
OutKast	B.O.B.
from Stankonia (1999)
Noisettes	Don't Give Up
from What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? (2007)
Run-DMC	King of Rock
from Run-DMC: Greatest Hits (2002)
Saul Williams	List of Demands (Reparations)
from The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (2008)
Fats Domino	I'm Walkin'
from The Fats Domino Jukebox: 20 Greatest Hits (2002)
Body Count	You Don't Know Me (Pain)
from Murder 4 Hire (2006)
Sly & the Family Stone	Dog
from A Whole New Thing (2006)
Stew	Love Like That
from Something Deeper Than These Changes (2003)
Death	Keep On Knocking
from ...For the Whole World to See (2009)
Prince	She's Always In My Hair
from Raspberry Beret / She's Always In My Hair [Digital 45] (2009)
Chocolate Genius	Life
from Black Music (1998)
Esquerita	Rockin' the Joint
from Vintage Voola (2006)
The Dirtbombs	Chains of Love
from Ulltraglide In Black (2001)
Eric Gales	Just Got Paid
from That's What I Am (2001)
Lloyd Price	Stagger Lee
from Lloyd Price Greatest Hits: The Original ABC-Paramount Recordings (1994)
Vernon Reid & Masque	Game Is Rigged
from Other True Self (2006)
Jon Butcher Axis	Red House
from A Stiff Little Breeze (2002)
The Bellrays	Detroit Breakdown
from Have a Little Faith (2006)
Martina Topley-Bird	Too Tough to Die
from Anything (2004)
Big Joe Turner	Shake, Rattle and Roll
from Greatest Hits (2005)
Kenna	Out of Control (State of Emotion)
from Make Sure They See My Face (2007)
Keziah Jones	Don't Forget
from Rhythm Is Love (2004)
Jeffrey Gaines	Hero in Me
from Always Be (2001)
Barry Adamson	Walk On Fire
from Back to the Cat (2008)

Comment:

The further you follow the journey of black rockers, the deeper and more diverse it gets. The seeds sown by '40s fire-starters like Wynonie Harris, with his jump-blues basher "Good Rockin' Tonight," eventually bore every kind of fruit imaginable. The thrash-and-burn metal of gangsta-rap godhead Ice-T's black-rock rebels Body Count on "There Goes the Neighborhood," the down-and-dirty garage-rock grit of the Dirtbombs' Detroit stomp "Chains of Love," the pure punk power of Death's hammering, hell-bent "Keep On Knocking" — they're all branches grown from the same mighty tree, one that's made just about every development in pop music over the last 60 years not just a possibility, but also a [i]reality[/i].

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