Authur Crudup’s ‘That’s All Right’. Fifth earliest rock ‘n’ roll track?
Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup |
Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup |
“Best piece of documentation on my band done by an author or journalist. Thank you Paul Merry.” Nick J Townsend, WEAK13. BLUESMUSE33 First there was blues, but only after: · Ethiopian delineating in the 1820s and 30s · Minstrelsy from the 1840s to 1900s · The abominably-named coon songs of the 1880s and 1890s ·…
“Enjoying your writing, thanks!” Wes@wes_oneill, 28 January 2014, Bristol, England. The Banjo Player, 1856. William Sidney Mount. UPDATED AND REFORMATTED March 23, 2020. BLUES MUSE 51. When most people think of the earliest days of the blues, they often imagine rural African Americans playing rudimentary delta blues on acoustic guitars. But, in reality, it wasn’t…
Updated 20 July 2016 St. Louis’ famous Gateway Arch is 630 ft. or 190 m high. In the nineteenth century, St. Louis used to be called The Gateway to the West St. Louis, Missouri, is a city so steeped in the blues, even the local NHL ice hockey team calls itself after one of the most famous…
London’s Garrick Theatre UPDATED OCTOBER 6, 2016. Anyone familiar with London’s West End theatre district will know the Garrick Theatre in Charing Cross Road. Yet who would know there’s a connection between David Garrick, the famous eighteenth century actor whom the theatre’s named after, and the blues? I’d venture that only rabid blues scholars or those…
Check the operatic talent of this amazing nine-year-old OK, I’m a few months late getting onto this one, but since this is primarily a blues and rock blog, I’m sure you’ll understand why I missed this amazing piece of television history that took place in December last year. If you missed it too, and…