MUS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Western Swing, Reverberation
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Part 3: rockabilly, few of the teenagers listening to rock n roll in the 1950"s knew of its country. Swing, boogie, or honky tonk predecessors: very few were even aware of any country music connection to the new music at all, looking at a roster of first-generation rock n roll musicians. Jerry lee lewis: elvis presley, carl perkins, african american r&b artists that hitched themselves to the new rock craze like fats domino and little richard, one sees that all were southern musicians and with the exception of little. Rockabilly, was created in sam phillips" sun records studio in memphis during the early to mid 1950"s: phillips recorded a range of performers from african american r&b artists b. b> King, ike turner, and howlin" wolf to country and gospel artists: his ability to recognize the talent of elvis presley, who combined african.
