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June 23, 2020

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Greg McVerry

Barrel House Piano

While Carl Hogan provided the guitar licks and Louis Jordan the vibe of rock and roll the boogey woogie piano players laid the foundation of the 2/4 beat. Meade Lux Lewis was one of the greatest boogey-woogie bashers of ivory. Boogey Woogey followed the same time scales of Blues but provided the upbeat rock and roll would need. Music meant for dancing and dr

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@dogtrax This is my poem on fuse https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2020/06/23/my-fuse-poem-clmooc...trying to capture the earworm you two sent

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@dogtrax This is my poem on fuse https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2020/06/23/my-fuse-poem-clmooc...trying to capture the earworm you two sent me on by sharing Commander Cody and then Guy Clarke...kinda did a history of rock in roll vibe going now: https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/content/listen/

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The Best of Louis Jordan

Jordan, known as the "King of the JukeBox" helped to invent jump jazz and bring Black music traditions of the South and make them front in center in Hollywood and out west. Jump Jive kept the 2/4 beat with the piano as the lead. Carl Hogan, the tympany guitar player though laid down riffs that would lead to the guitar replacing the piano as lead in R&B and R

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My fuse poem #clmooc

learning fuses as ideas melt congeal coalescing in communities as thought New Knowledge sparked on tips of past as spindles rekindle flames of desire in fibers of unlit realities img credit img credit: "Melt" by AnnLoHY is licensed under CC BY-SA

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Telescription 1951

Bob Willis took the influence of Bessie Smith and Emmit Tiller and gave rise to the Country Swing that would mix with Texas/Chcago Blues and jump blues to become rock and roll. We can hear this evolution in his rendition of Ida Red. Ida Red was an American folk song with no known origin. Willis recorded it in 1938 using the 2/4 Dance beat common in jazz and

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The Great 28

Chuck Berry gets the moniker of "father of Rock and roll" In 1955 Chuck Berry recorded Maybeline which riffed off of Bob Willi's "Ida Red." Berry took the lead from Charles Hogan and replaced the leading piano with a leading guitar. The same stop time and 4 beat bar that traces through blues and jazz. Berry took the showmanship of T-Bone Waler and amplified

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Greatest Hits

Fats Domino brought the back beat. A New Orleans bluesman his song "Fat Man" an adaption of a song about drug addicts called "Junker Blues" By 1951 it became the first rock and roll album to sell over a million copies. Domino defined rock and roll as "It wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New Orleans." Domino and his produ

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