The Paddock

Classical music goes back hundreds of years and until the last century was penned almost entirely by folks of European descent. If you want to include that, the white man's got it.

If you're talking more about contemporary folk & pop music, it all goes back to the blues. Driving rhythms influenced heavily by African (and Carribean) cultures which were mostly the part of the slave trade. Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Stones - their roots come largely from early to mid century black music. I don't think that rap / hip hop is going anywhere, although I'm sure it will evolve like rock and country have. Although I hope for the sake of future generations, it evolves better than country has the past 30 or 40 years! How did we go from Hank to this crap? So if you're looking at more like the last hundred years and not 300, then the black man's got it.

I'm not going to post a link here, but I'll describe a video you can find on youtube. It is the most filthy, dirty unbelievably sexual song I've ever heard. The kicker... It was recorded by a female blues artist in the early 1930s named Lucille Bogan. It's called "till the cows come home" and available on youtube.

Carl I present to you a great example of why the herd should be thinned.

Rob that was freaking awful and my entire family now has ill feelings toward you.

Big Tyrone and dj-ky-cat are correct. What we refer to as rock and roll, would not exist without the blues. Also the blues, in its purest form, is still alive and well, so that is a style of black music that has survived more than a decade. And if you include rock as a form of the blues, it has not only survived, but thrived, for more than a decade.

It sounds like you're trying to make the case that rock and roll is white music, as opposed to black music which is something else. I don't see it that way. Rock and Roll is the music of Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Bo Diddley. The fact that white people started playing it, and now play it nearly exclusively, is not relevant to where the music came from or what it is. If you don't believe me, look at what any significant rocker says about their influences.

NO, that's incorrect... I was NOT trying to make such case. If you recall (above) I said... " I know most people give credit to Elvis for that, but they fail to realize that Elvis himself was influenced by black music of those days"... which is my ADMISSION that Rock evolved from black artists of that time. My argument is... what Rock has become since the days of Elvis, has outlasted ALL other genres AND did so with primarily "white" artists. For the last 5 or 6 decades, Rock&Roll has been considered white music... and it was the Rock music of "those" decades that has influenced society the most. That's the only case I'm trying to make... NOT that Rock&Roll (itself) was created by white artists. Over the years, black music went an entirely different direction, than what is considered white music.... which today, is primarily Rock and Country. Although, alot of white people "think" they are rappers. LOL

Has anyone ever told you... YOU AIN'T RIGHT!!!

But that's what we love about you BigT

You're right, good point. I like it when everybody wins. There are also a lot of similarities between country and blues from the early-mid 20th century. Jimmie Rodgers is known to some as the father of country music (sorry, Hank), but has a lot of songs that overlap with the blues in structure, changes, themes & lyrics. It's all inbred and incestuous. It's just music. hah.

Jimmie Rodgers was dying of tuberculosis when he recorded the TB Blues. He sounds kind of upbeat but it takes on a different tone when you realize he's actually dying of tuberculosis.

On that note is Church's chicken still in business? That place has to be the worst food I've ever eaten in my life (unlike you guys who know these things when you have 5 Europeans on a road trip we don't always know which fast food joints are good/bad :P)

JJ I think the pressure of the fantasy play-offs is getting to you brother!

Thank you black people for rock-and-roll, classic rock, and country. I think thanks to you every time I hear a good song come on.

Good post.