Artist	Song
Muddy Waters	Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2
from Muddy Waters: Rollin' Stone - The Golden Anniversary Collection (2007)
Nat "King" Cole	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
from The World of Nat King Cole (2005)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Ida Red
from Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2: Best of the Tiffanys (2005)
T-Bone Walker	I'm Gonna Find My Baby
from The Complete Capitol/Black & White Recordings (2008)
Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats	Rocket 88
from Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 1 (2008)
Elmore James	Dust My Blues
from Let's Cut It - The Very Best of Elmore James (1992)
Hank Williams	Hey, Good Lookin'
from 20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits (1997)
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Saturday Night Fish Fry, Pts. 1 & 2
from Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll - The Anthology 1938-1953 (2008)
Big Joe Turner	Honey Hush
from Greatest Hits (2005)
Golden Gate Quartet	Swing Down, Chariot
from Close Harmony - A History of Southern Gospel Music, Vol. 1: 1920-1955 (2004)
Jay McShann	Confessin' the Blues
from Blues Classics (1996)
Bill Haley	Crazy, Man Crazy
from Country Swing, Rock and More (2007)
Meade Lux Lewis	Honky Tonk Train Blues
from The Definitive Collection of Piano Blues and Boogie (2009)
Arkie Shibley	Hot Rod Race
from Unforgettable Pop Hits (4 CD's Box Set) (2009)
Harry Belafonte	Jamaica Farewell
from Calypso (1992)

Comment:

If Chuck Berry built the bridge between hillbilly and blues, [i]these[/i] musicians supplied its girders. Western swing kings Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys crank up a shuffle-with-a-backbeat hillbilly hoedown in the folk song "Ida Red," a tune Chuck recorded on his original audition tape . . . before an in-studio rewrite at Leonard Chess' insistence transformed it into "Maybellene." Even if blues legend Muddy Waters played the polka, he'd still have the right to be here, since he set Chuck up with a Chess Records audition, but on the Delta-goes-downtown electric slide of "Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2 (Single Version)" you can hear why Muddy was not only Berry's mentor, but also his hero. And nearly a decade before Chuck duck-walked his way into the history books, you can hear the planted seed of rock 'n' roll growing in the belly of T-Bone Walker's bluff-and-blustery jump blues "I'm Gonna Find My Baby." From the King Cole Trio to the Golden Gate Quartet to Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, we've got all the singers, swingers, styles, and sounds that shaped one of rock's architects.

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