by Paul Merry | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Updated July 28 2019. Blues Muse 14. Two pioneers of the exhilarating new form of blues that, during the 1930s and 1940s, became the precursor to rhythm & blues, included Louisiana’s Saunders King and Aaron T- Bone Walker from Texas. By the early 1940s, both were...
by Paul Merry | May 30, 2013 | Uncategorized |
BLUESMUSE13 I’ve been researching to find out what was America’s, and therefore the world’s, third ever rock & roll record release after Albert Ammons in 1936, and then Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson in 1938 (see earlier posts). This suggestion might be a bit...
by Paul Merry | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized |
A young Big Joe Turner BluesMuse 12 If Albert Ammon’s ‘Boogie Woogie Stomp’ was the world’s first rock & roll record in 1936, what was the second? Allow me to put forward ‘Roll ‘Em Pete’, another rollicking piano-based boogie woogie, this one released...
by Paul Merry | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized |
BluesMuse11 The young (very young) Irish old-style R&B band, The Strypes, performed in London recently. I tweeted their praises, but forgot to plug them in my blues blog. The Strypes are reminiscent in sound and energy to the great English bands of the 1960s...
by Paul Merry | May 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
BluesMuse10 Fifty eight years ago this May, Bill Hayley’s 12-bar blues, ‘Rock Around The Clock’, turned the world onto rock & roll. While many people claim Ike Turner’s ‘Rocket 88’ was the first rock & roll record in 1951, I’d like to put forward an innovative...
