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Guess whose father-in-law was the original King of the Blues Guitar?

Guess whose father-in-law was the original King of the Blues Guitar?

by Paul Merry | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...
Is this 1940s track rock & roll release number 3?

Is this 1940s track rock & roll release number 3?

by Paul Merry | May 30, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...
World’s 2nd rock & roll record: Roll ‘Em Pete by Big Joe Turner with Pete Johnson in 1938

World’s 2nd rock & roll record: Roll ‘Em Pete by Big Joe Turner with Pete Johnson in 1938

by Paul Merry | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...

Old-style Rhythm & Blues is alive and kicking

by Paul Merry | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...
Was ‘Boogie Woogie Stomp’ the world’s first rock & roll record in 1936?

Was ‘Boogie Woogie Stomp’ the world’s first rock & roll record in 1936?

by Paul Merry | May 27, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...
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