For Episode 61 of MARS MESSINA PRESENTS, we discover the origins of Rock & Roll music. They are not to be found in the 1950's rollicking, fun songs of Elvis, Pat Boone, Jerry Lee Lewis. The roots of the genre go deeper...further...darker...and were obscured by racism and marketing. You'll find rock's influences in the slippery notes of Jazz, the humidity of the backwoods, and the seeds of it all on the Southern Plantations, sung by enslaved Africans.
BEDTIME STORIES FROM THE ACOUSTIC BOOKSHELF closes today's episode with BOOGIE CHILLUN, by John Lee Hooker.
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