tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post1834441736353239740..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Seven Examples Of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (also known as "in The Pines" & "Black Girl") Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-71179135447119815052016-08-09T08:25:30.149-04:002016-08-09T08:25:30.149-04:00Here's a comment that was sent into the discus...Here's a comment that was sent into the discussion section for an earlier pancocojams post entitled "Three Recordings Of "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston, Chris Powell, & Bill Haley"<br /><br />Joseph Scott, March 20, 2015 at 3:53 PM<br /><br />"Hi Azizi,<br /><br />Thanks for quoting my comments about early rock and roll. The way many writers of the '60s-'70s and on artificially contrived to imagine the rock and roll sound not being possible without white contributions, somehow (not all explaining the supposed details nearly the same way), is a lasting embarrassment. Examples of writers who have written about early rock and roll far more sensibly are Morgan Wright and Nick Tosches. None of the known leaders or sidemen who recorded blues-form recordings about quote "rock"ing with prominent backbeat (such as Jimmy Preston and Wild Bill Moore) before mid-1949 was white. Zero percent. Elvis Presley said at his Sep. 2, 1957 press conference, “Rock and roll was around a long time before me, it was really rhythm and blues. I just got on the bandwagon with it.” Elvis was a music buff who knew music that sounded like Chris Powell's "Rock The Joint" and Jimmy Smith's "Rock That Boogie" (both 1949) long before many of his peers did. Two of the recordings that particularly show what kind of music Elvis, Scotty, and Bill imitated in 1954 (when, some writers would say, they were "inventing" rock and roll) are "Love My Baby" by Little Junior and "Where Did You Stay Last Night" by Arthur Crudup. "We're Gonna Rock This Joint" by the Jackson Brothers is from 1952, on RCA Victor, and so obviously sounds like late '50s rock and roll that it's ridiculous how many people have tried to imagine rock and roll as "starting" later than 1952." Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com