![]() Cosby’s Devil’s Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll recognizes the ongoing - and ultimately pointless - debate as to the music’s origins, providing a sort of musical and cultural genealogy that brings together bite-sized chunks of musical trivia generally scattered across myriad sources and placing it within its representational cultural context. In other words, there is no definitive starting point or original artist responsible for the movement as a whole rather, there is only those who helped popularize rock ‘n’ in their own time, namely during the ’50s.Īuthor (and PopMatters contributor) James A. Bringing together everything from minstrel shows to Delta blues to hillbilly music to elements of jazz, what we now think of as rock ‘n’ roll is little more than a jumbled gumbo of popular American musical styles. Indeed, rock ‘n’ roll historian Ed Ward went so far as to title his attempt at a comprehensive overview of the form The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963. Of course it’s easy to be a revisionist historian, looking back over the whole of the spectrum of popular music, hoping to pinpoint an exact starting point, and this is why the discussion has become so heated in recent years. The difference is the culture within which each came to the greater public attention, one in which race played a deciding role in who would receive credit for having done what. Considering that the music itself relied on the same basic I-IV-V chord progression within a 12-bar blues format, the similarities are plain as day. The fact of the matter is, the music of black artists playing jump blues and similar forms in the ’40s doesn’t sound all that much different from what would be labeled rock ‘n’ roll in the next decade. It’s easy to argue that what was considered rock ‘n’ roll in the wake of Elvis Presley and others was really nothing more than white-washed (literally) R&B with a mix of hillbilly music for good measure. Part of the problem is that there isn’t necessarily a line of delineation as to when rock ‘n’ roll became rock ‘n’ roll, as the disparate elements that came together to make the sound of what is commonly thought of as the genre were in existence for decades prior to its ’50s heyday. ![]() Ask five different rock ‘n’ roll scholars what the first rock ‘n’ roll song was and you’ll likely get five different answers ranging from songs from as early as the mid-’20s up through the early ’50s. Every musician is talented and passionate, and their love of the stage and their strong friendship make each concert a moment of joy and sincerity.The history of rock ‘n’ roll and its myriad “firsts” is about as convoluted and controversial as things can get when it comes to determining who originated what, when, where and why. The Hillbilly Rockers Band has his own sound, his own way to make Country Music and to share it with the public. And they travel from the win of the Marignac “New Talent” Festival to the amazing Festival of Craponne-sur-Arzon, sharing the main stage with Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison. The new band is ready to hit the biggest stages of Country Music in Europe and the success grows as the band members grow together. Leo replaces Margaux and Lionel takes the Bass. Everything changes: the sound, the design, the work and the musicians. In 2006 arrives Nathalie, a fiddle player, who leaves the Band after one year to become a mommy! Margaux takes her place and Freddy (guitar) joins the Band.Ģ011 is a new age for the Hillbilly Rockers Band, and that will inspire them the title of their new album “Update 3.0”. Jimmy, an inspired multi instrumentalist, Jean-Hugues, a Bass player, and Astrid, the 21 year-old singer joined the Band. ![]() In 2004, the Band goes through several changes among their musicians.
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