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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...

"A long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile":

And Charles Ives was Frank Zappa!

I've always thought "rock n roll" was merely a blanket term for the so-called founding fathers of popular rock started in the 1950's...

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