2018-03-16
Such a fun show. I love Katie Skene Southern sense of inhospitality. Flows through her voice and guitar. Combine with Barry Sless, John Molo , Pete Sears and Rob Barraco and you have one of the best bands not on the road.
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2020-02-14 | 1st Bank Center - Broomfield, CO
I freaking love this show sooo much
Greg McVerryStrechin' Out Live 1976
A little love for the Houston area. Let the Mothership deliver some hope. Such a fun Bootsy Collins live concert.
Greg McVerryKiyès Ou Ye - (Blowow Remix)
Learnign. some new music at camp
Greg McVerryFalse Weavers
some punk folk at its finest
Greg McVerryBest of Mix
Another boogie woogie great Big Joe Turner was a "shouter" in jump jazz bands. His song "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" is probaly the first rock and roll song to hit #1 on the charts. As a "shouter" Turner bridged the big band era while foreshadowing the lead singer in rock bands and the emcee in Hip Hop. Turner also got his start at the Apollo Theater in Harlem,
Greg McVerryGreatest Hits
Following the Gospel/Country Swing into Rockabily line was the only other person who could maybe come close to Little Richard on the piano. Jerry Lee Lewis crushed the keys. Great Balls of Fire stands on the Rock And Roll Song Pantheon. Lewis faded in popularity quickly. Marrying your 13 year old cousin can do that.
Greg McVerryMillion Dollar Quartet
Rockabiliy bridges Country swing, Gospel, and Rock and Roll. No album better illustrates the connection to Gospel than the "Million Dollar Quartert" The album, an accidental recording when Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lewis, and Johnny Cash hung out in a studio in Memphis, Tenessee
Greg McVerryHere's Little Richard
Little Richard, when inducted in the Apollo Hall of Fame, was labled the "Architect of Rock and Roll." Like Wright, Richard Penniman grew up in Georgia gospel. Wright, provided fasion advice to Ruichard and even suggestedLittle Richard copy his haird cut. The Flambouyant Richard would always struggle with his sexuality, and his identity of a performaer and p
Greg McVerryJunior jams from Blues to Surf
An axe thrower to highest degree...what a cool monstrosity of an instrument.
Greg McVerryStacked Deck
An openly gay Black man in 1940-50s Atlanta Wright grew up singing Gospel in church. He became a main stay in the Atlanta, GA Blues scene. The flambouyant performer was known as the "Prince of Blues" and gave Little Richard style lessons. His first record, in 1949, reached #3 on the Billboard R&B category (called Race Records at the time)
Greg McVerryCold Beverage
A h/t to all the @IndieWebCamp West Organizers for their hard work. You all deserve a Cold Beverage
Greg McVerryPrecious Lord: Recordings of The Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey
The final building block of Rock and Roll belongs to to the Black Church. Gospel music shaped America. The AME has probably produced more Topp 100 hits than the Julliard could in a 100 centuries. When the commerical recording industry took off Thomas A Dorsey drove Gospel to new levels. In fact the so called "Father of Gospel" became so poular recorded gospe
Greg McVerryHowlin' Wolf (Rocking Chair Album)
Howlin Wolf also inspired much of the the early rock and roll songs. Many of his Blues songs became Rock standards through the late 60's and 70's
Greg McVerryAll the Best
The explicit connections between Rock and Roll and the African Diaspora comes out more in the music of Bo Diddley than any ther musician. Plus he rips on the axe. Diddley "created" what became known at the Diddley Beat. He used African responses of call and responses and ea 3-2 clave rhythm. that traces back to Afro-Cuban music and Yoruba drumming traditions
Greg McVerryGreatest 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
Greg McVerryThe 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
Greg McVerryBarrel 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
Greg McVerryThe 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
Greg McVerryTelescription 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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