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When I was 13 in '69, Steppenwolf, Beck, Zeppelin, the Who, and the Airplane were my touchstones. I made a distinction between "rock...

For whatever it's worth.... Keith Richards (the arbiter of cool in his own mind, at least) defined the difference between "Rock and...

Just for grins, here's a mess of information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_rock_and_roll

The term "rock and roll" dates back to the 1950's or perhaps a touch earlier depending upon who you want to believe. "rocking and...

Andrew Hickey, in his extraordinary podcast, A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, makes a strong case that rock ‘n roll started in...

I saw Hound Dog Taylor at a small club in Cambridge, MA back in ‘74. The House was indeed Rockin’. 😎

Back in the 1980s, I ran across this Hound Taylor and The House Rockers album and was blown away when I read in the liner notes that the...

For whatever it's worth.... Keith Richards (the arbiter of cool in his own mind, at least) defined the difference between "Rock and...

Back in the 1980s, I ran across this Hound Taylor and The House Rockers album and was blown away when I read in the liner notes that the...

For whatever it's worth.... Keith Richards (the arbiter of cool in his own mind, at least) defined the difference between "Rock and...

I caught the Grateful Dead during the Summer of ‘74, when they were touring with the Wall of Sound. The closest I’ve come to that...

:-) Rock and Role the lifestyle - absolutely. Rock and Roll (see what I did there) the music, not as much.

Here are a few excerpts from a writeup on violinist extraordinaire Nicolo Paganini. "In particular, the memorable tour he undertook...

I always thought, through reading before the internet, that "Rocket 88" done by Ike Turner was the "first" rock'n'roll, in 1951...

Alan Freed popularized the term Rock and Roll for the music he played on his radio show, but the origin of the music is best described...