The Hound hears more in John Lee Hooker’s best work than I do, and this has got to be right: …he was not only one of the most famous blues singers of all time, he really was probably the most primitive artists to sell a lot of records. Well observed, that, based on a deep [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rock and roll’
The HoundBlog and John Lee Hooker
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blues, music, rock and roll on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rock and roll can never die
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1940's, music, rock and roll on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m happy to see not-especially-penetrating historical descriptions of rock and roll now casually defining it as arising in the 1940′s. (Here, for example, and here, and here.) Because that’s right. History helps clarify. Everybody admits that Alan Freed started talking about rock and roll in ’51 — but doesn’t that sort of have to mean [...]
