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  • the reverb on this tune is awesome. sounds like he was singin in an empty warehouse.

    in '29, no less

  • Most people consider the first rock and roll song to be "Rocket 88" by Ike Turner, Recorded at Sun Records in 1951. But, this is a good song none the less.

  • UNLESS YOU HAVE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO ROCK AND ROLL RECORDED BEFORE THE 1920s THEN I WOULD AGREE FIRST ROCK AND ROLL SONG

  • I think Hank Williams recorded the first Rock and Roll song- Move it on over is the title of it..

    But this Charley Patton song is great..

  • @zuidwijker66 Alen freed created the label Rock n rock,and all he did was recycle Blues and C&W.He even said so.

  • no doubt, this rocks, therefore it is rock (Renee Decartesius)

  • rock and roll? . . . yeah, and the sun raises in the west!

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  • Blues & Hillbilly music have equal claims to the birth of Rock'n'Roll,it is a mixture of many styles & the Blues siners were as influenced by white music just as much as white music was influenced by black.

  • "'We're Gonna Rock This Morning' by D. Dickens" Correction -- although multiple sources say it was recorded in '49, looks to me like the sources that say it was recorded in '51 are correct, as opposed to Dickens' "Rock And Roll," which was recorded in '49.

  • @Vasilouxxx sorry it Rock Around The Clock was first done by Sonny Dae who was Italian & not a black man.

  • Maybe it's the first Rhythm n Blues song, but it doesn't sound very Rock n Roll. The first song to sound REALLY like Rock n Roll is Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets, 1955.

  • @54markl Rock Around The Clock was a black song first, Haley covered it

  • @54markl Good Rocking Tonight - 1947 Roy Brown ;-)

  • @54markl Jackie Brenston singing "Rocket 88" might give you an argument there . . .

  • @54markl Whel bill Haley never recorded a song SOUNDING like rock n roll if you lsten to late 40s and early 50s R&B.... listen to Tiny Bradshaw, Smiley Lewis, Louis Jordan or Big Maybelle among many others....

  • well that lyric about a woman who is long and tall has certainly be recycled in a song or two - including rock

  • I think they call this stuff.... MUSIC!!!

  • This is way older than r&r. This is delta blues.

  • I see that Chuck Berry got a lot of influence here

  • @guybr3 possibly, Chuck was inspired more by T-Bone Walker,Charlie Christian & Carl Hogan.

  • speed up the recording!

  • says who? sounds like a blues to me....it has a rhythm and blues edge to it...but still a country blues type song. Its just advertising it as "1st rock and roll song" is a bit sensationalist / presumptive. Thats all. Nothing against the great Charlie Patton.

  • @glueforall I certainly agree with what your saying. But if this song was sped up, it would totally sound like a rockabilly song which is Rock and Roll. But at the speed that it's at, I totally agree with you. This song would make a good rock song if it was played at a faster speed without the chipmunk vocals of course.

  • All forms of music is evolutionary, as one form breeds with another, and any and many variations emerge. Its all good. Its music.

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  • "THE BLUES HAD A BABY AND THEY NAMED IT ROCK & ROLL"

  • why do you add reverb to all of these?

  • the great thing about this music is that no one will claim copyrights and remove it from youtube

  • @codyaustinpemberton Point! :)

  • @joenatescott : Yep...exactly. (Thanks for the additional names) Between you and me I think we've got this thing figured out. ;-)

  • No doubt this is a rock'n'roll tune.

  • Go to the Museum of Rock and Soul in Memphis, TN. It's just off Beale St.. There you will see the whole story unfold on how white and black music merged and fused.

    You can also make a trip to Sun Studios, Where not on "Rocket 88" was recorded, but Elvis' career was born.

    I have been to Memphis twice and both are mandatory stops for me.

  • That's the thing about music...it's open to conjecture and interpretation. It's widely considered that the first 'R&R' song was Rocket 88, recorded by Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm in 1951. I have the 'History of Rock and Roll' on tape and it's roots are in blues, r&b, country, jazz, gospel and old 'negro spirituals' going as far back as the days of slavery. (Yeah, there are historians who look and consider that far back). MANY elements contributed to what became known as 'Rock & Roll'.

  • Elvis was the first real rockand roller.

  • @MAGICO240 even elvis mention him,and muddy waters as his inspiration..so even the king would disagree with u

  • I think that's just a blues song. Early rock and roll was based on the blues but sounded much different. The first song I ever heard that sounded like Rock and roll came from the 40s.

  • Dorians a little over-enthusiastic about this song; maybe it is her favorite. But, by my listening of Charley, he's got lots of other equally if not better songs all precursor to rock(i like to say the blues rocks!)

  • @joenatescott from about 1945 until 1955 we call it boggy woggie. rock and roll started when bill haley recorded one of eddie floyd's songs called rock around the clock. chuck berry/ike turner pushed it further.

  • Actually this is a blues song, though rock and roll is a spin-off from blues and jazz.

  • damn! i love this blues. my aunt who died a few years ago ran a juke joint and had original records like that. robert johnson, you name it all authentic records and this man kept coming by trying to but them all the time and lo and behold i see this same man on a p.b.s. documentary going around buying old records!!!! there was this old man who came by all the time who played guitar and played music just like that. old old style!!!

  • THANK U.COULD LISTEN ALL DAY.

  • Don't forget Elvis was called rock, so this can fall as rock and roll. So what if it sounds like blues? It can be legitimately claimed as rock and roll

  • @Rawr17000

    you're claiming chicken or egg when one can clearly be placed as happening BEFORE the other. This is blues. Rock n roll is derivative of blues. This does not make all blues rock n roll or all rock n roll blues.

  • The term "Rock and Roll" is NOT what Black musical artists used during the 1950's. Young people may call it that, The term was actually "Rhythm and Blues". I lived it.......Having listened to my first Rhythm and Blues song around 1952. Listening to this song I truly believe it could have been the first recorded "Rhythm and Blues" song. No matter what........this is a great song. Thanks for posting it.

  • It takes a rocking chair to rock, a rubber ball to roll, nice lookin teasin brown to satisfy my soul, gonna move to Kansas City. "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues" is what this song is based on.

  • @colorod0 ...It seems like every singer of that generation, born in the 1870s and 80s, had a version of this which probably means it was a well known dance tune from even earlier. It sounds a little like a minstrel cakewalk even.

  • @PeluMaad Yeah, a bunch of these early songs are repeated. W.C. Handy encountered the song "Kansas City Blues" in about 1910, I think. He tried to put in on sheet music and publish it, but I believe the versions taken from that were different. Jim Jackson put his name on it and was the first to record it. Mr. Patton revved it up a bunch. The Jim Jackson version is rag tinged like most mistrel show music. Too bad these guys couldn't have recorded earlier (songsters).

  • @colorod0 ....Yes man....I love the guys with that old minstrel sound...Louis Laskey, Frank Stokes, Gus Cannon, The Memphis Jug Band, Uncle Dave Macon, Henry Thomas, Texas Alexander, Papa Charlie Jackson....even Levon Helm.

  • Done in ONE take, no doubt...ONE TAKE! Good post!

  • GREAT CLIP you know your music. very informed. thanks.

  • This is Blues (like a Robert Johnson) or Bluesgrass, is not Rock N' Roll

  • One person didn't move to Alabama. . . . .

  • be like the punk rock of the era..just different enough to be something else

  • Man, this is blues, ain't no rock. Of course rock is very similar to blues and evolved out of the blues, sometimes there isn't much difference, but this was WAY before rock n' roll.

  • @mlcoo17 If it's got that back-beat, it's Rock and Roll.

  • 1 person specifally looked this up just to dislike it. Sad.

  • Great song. Earnest Tubb did it as Going To Move To Kansas City; baby, where they dont like you.

  • Ah Charley Patton was indeed an original..

  • This may not be the first rock and roll song but Charley was the first person to play rock and roll the rite way

  • I can see where the likes of Elvis and Chuck Berry got some of their influence from!

  • "Blue" as used to describe rude comedy comes from the Blues as well as some people thought that the Blues was the Devil's music and some lyrics are very suggestive.

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  • ELVIS,,, he was the first to sing Rock'n'Roll. before Elvis there was Rand B,

    Blues, Country ,gosple etc. etc. Elvis accidently mixed everything he liked

    into one big ball,,,,voila....Rock'N'Roll was born.

  • @MrBillfitz No when Elvis begin to perform it the name was changed from r&b to rock&roll.

  • It's not rock and roll, dude?

  • As Muddy Waters said, the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll. And the kid could be tried by jury as often as not for attempted patricide.

  • @EasyAce Does Muddy imply that country music impregnated the blues??

  • @AllBobsAllTheTime I don't think so, not by the lyric of the song I paraphrased . . . ;)

  • Gonna move to Alabama? I thought it was Lets twister again!

  • CHECK OUT Camp Meeting Jubilee1904-1916 the REAL Term for ROCK AND ROLL.

  • song was a rip off of Kansas City Blues by jim jackson

  • only 1 person didn't move to alabama.

  • one person can't move to alabama

  • @realmwar Not a bad thing when you really consider it.

  • its blues . regular player/composer of rock rhythmed 2/4 songs (besides his classic blues songs) was Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup

  • The term "Rock and Roll" is an African American term for having sex. There were songs with the terms"Rock" and/or "Rock and Roll" in the lyrics dating back to the 1920's.

  • @weswade  WOW ...I DID NOT KNOW THAT...OF KOURSE I WAS BORN IN 1977

  • @weswade Did you know that "jelly roll" meant exactly the same thing as "diddy wa diddie?"  Also, "jazz" was a verb. It was what two people would do; if they really liked each other. And don't even get me started on "black snake."

  • @theoriginalbadbob LMAO!

    

  • @weswade Rock & roll also referred to the way riverboat "roustabouts" needed to carry the load onto the boat -- rockin & rollin made the load lighter as two guys carried the load from a pair of poles. Might be the original source too, or at least an influence in the term's usage.

  • @sazajac77z Interesting. Can you cite a source? "Rock and roll" was sexual slang, and that's how it was applied to the music. But, I wonder if the phrase originated in riverboating and was then translated into a sexual idiom (The Mississippi Delta is adjacent to the Mississippi River, so the language of the boatmen would have been extremely familiar to the black sharecroppers in the delta). Thus it was a frequently occurring phrase in the songs performed by the delta musicians and so on.

  • @ptolemny Sure, I got this from the book "The Land Where the Blues Began" by Alan Lomax. (A must read for any blues fan!)

    He doesn't actually say that what roustabouts did is a source of the term "Rock and Roll". But that is what they called it.

  • @weswade this was made in the 1920s stupid

  • this sounds a lot like Hank Williams' move it on over

  • @jeanhaliburtonwills don't you mean that the other way around

  • @flexiblebus well yes I suppose I do!

  • Great song!.Hendrixs mum from ISLE OF SKY ,SCOTLAND

  • catchy

  • Ah loves dis song , diss music make me wish ah wuz still pickin cotton!

  • For me, Bill Haley have made the rock and roll.

  • @RamisAbud1 - For me it was Ronnie Hawkins.

  • Could someone supply me with the lyrics to this? I'd like to make my own arrangement of it, and I'm not stressin' over coming up with a guitar part, but I can pretty much only make the "move to alabama" parts out, and I can't find lyrics anywhere online.

  • The rhythm makes me think rock 'n' roll. If it was a tad faster I wouldn't be able to deny it.

  • this is good

  • blues /boogie feel, sounds like rock and roll to me.

  • this is blues not rock i think. please don't get me wrong, it a good song and is now stuck in my head..... and i'm from Alabama so roll tide

  • @RollOnToVictory They're part of the same evolutionary chain of African American music. The idea that this is the "First" rock and roll song is splitting hairs. It's hard to say where blues ends and rock and roll begins, as one gave one to the other. Great song, either way.

  • @mcchargueable i think blues never ends. Blues lives on rock n roll. for me, Blues is like foundation of the building and Rock n roll is the wall of the building.

  • Recorded uptempo blues long predates Patton. The fad for singing about rocking over a backbeat caught on during '47-'50 -- "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston from '49, e.g. People who talked about rock and roll in the '50s, in reaction to that fad, were talking about stuff like Preston, like the Treniers and Bill Haley, and really not about stuff like Patton. Getting excited about old uptempo blues as "rock and roll," per se, is pointless, frankly. It's old uptempo blues and it's great.

  • Lol wow, none of the people commenting here seem too interested in the actual video.  Anyway, I personally wouldn't consider this rock and roll. I agree rock happened before Elvis and all them, but I don't really hear it here.

  • night guys feel free to fuck up the scumbag gay boy babies ill be back when i can be arsed with such retared rhetoric from some one so fuckin stupid they dont no a pussy from a cat 

  • i here nothing regarding bob marley was he mixed or are you suggesting this is lies

  • @deewilki Bob marely was mixed

    NOT hendrix

    dumb ass

  • @DeportAnchorBabies Besides obviously being black, Hendrix was also Indian - Cherokee specifically.

  • @sugarp211919pie so are millions of other African Americans...your point?

  • @DeportAnchorBabies the relpy wasn't meant for you. it was meant for  @deewilki about Hendrix having Cherokee indian.

  • YOUE LITTLE MERDE ON MORE RECENT TERMS WHO THE FUCK ARE

    BLACKROK WHAT DO THEY DO AND WITH WHO AND WHY OHH THATS IT THEY ARE WHITE GUYS AND BLACK GUYS MAKING MUSIC FOR NONASSHOLESLIKE YOUR

  • YOUE LITTLE MERDE

  • IM FUCKIN WAITIN ASSHOLE ITS 3 IN THE MORNING AND WELL KEEP UP OR IS YOUR MOUTH TO FULL OF JIZ

  • IM FUCKIN WAITIN ASSHOLE

  • OH WHILE WERE AT IT BIG WALTER HORTON IS BETTER THAT LITTLE WALTER IS THIS DUE TO SKIN COLOUR ALSO ARE IS ONE A LESSER BLACK THAN THE OTHER YOU PIN HEAD MUTHER FUCKER

  • @deewilki Pretty much all those white guitarist youve named are shit compared to gods like bb king,hendrix,muddy waters, etc etc

  • @DeportAnchorBabies YOU REALY ARE SPITTING BUBLES FAG BOY HERE IS NO POINT CONVERSING WITH AN IDIOT IS THER ILL LEAVE IT TO SOMEONEELSE HOPEFULLY RAGTIM JUST BANS YOU AS YOUR A FUCK WIT PETER GREEN IS SHIT LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL YOUR MOUTH NEEDS AWIPE OR ARE YOU TO BUYS TAKING IT UP THE SHITTER

  • @DeportAnchorBabies

    OK GAY BOT WHOS SHIT

  • PS HOW MANY NON WHITES ARE GREAT GUITARIST IN THESE MODERN TIMES GAY BOY ?????? I THINK YOU NEED TO REVISE YOU ADDITION MATY BUBBLE

  • ALLMAN BROS , KEEF RICHARDS,RY COODER WHO LEARED AS ATEEN FROM ZAPPA , JHONNY WINTER, JHONNY CASH ,PETE SEEGER, WOODIE GUTHRIE , ARLO GUTHRIE MAN YOU ARE FUCKIN DUMB ,WAREN HAYNES, HAMISH IMLACH ,ROYBUCHANAN ,DUAWNE ALLMAN DO YOU STILL WANT MORE YOU FUCKIN MORON

  • ALLMAN BROS , KEEF RICHARDS,RY COODER WHO LEARED AS ATEEN FROM ZAPPA , JHONNY WINTER, JHONNY CASH ,PETE SEEGER, WOODIE GUTHRIE , ARLO GUTHRIE MAN YOU ARE FUCKIN DUMB

  • DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING ON GAY BOY

  • @deewilki Hate to break it to you but Jimi hendrix was not half white

    keep on dreaming you cultureless fag

  • AND AGIN ATFAG BOY

    hendrix (half white) john mayal, bob the bear hite, blind all wilson, sam chatmon (half white) charlie patton (halfwhite) SRV ( eben though i dont like him ) FRANK FUCKIN ZAPPA , CAPTAIN FUCKIN BEEFHEART rip, JORMA KORKANUAN, RORY MUTHER FUCKIN GALLAGHER ,GARRY MORE , LONIE DONAGHAN , JIMMIY MCLACHALAN

  • ok deport asshole

    easy question

    was sam chatmon mixed

    was skip james mixed

    was charlie patton mixed race

    if you answer yes and the answer is yes ( fact ) you are a no good lying scumbag racist oxygen thief you have no argument no objective facts no truths no fuck all bar your sectarian and racist views too be such a racist it must hurt when you find out these guys are WHITE LOL YOU MUPPET oh while were at it and HENDRIX AND BOB MARLEY ALSO A MIXED RACE OR IS THIS LIES??? 

  • @deewilki You act like those black musicians having a little bit of white admixture (from rape by the way) has something to do with their greatness when it comes to playing lmao

    Compare the number of black guitar greats to that of whites

    No comparison

  • @DeportAnchorBabies ok fag boy steve winwood, eric clapton, syd barret, dave mason, sea sicksteve,JIMMY RODGERS,PETER GREEN , PETE TOWNSEND, LENON ,MCARTNY, DAVE CROSBY,STEVEN STILLS , GRAHAMNASH , NEIL YOUNG ,

  • @DeportAnchorBabies NO BLACK MAN EVER FUCKED A WHITE WOMAN EHH STOP BIENG SO FUCKING RACIST AS I SAID MR LUTHER KING AND THE PANTHERS WOULD FUCKING STRING YOU UP

  • it goes to show ehh huddie leadbetter sam chatmon bo carter they all sung country it neverbecame BLUES or rock tell the name was made  (constructed) but country to you is WHITES MUSIC EHH good god i feel sorry for you that my 9 and 8 year old know more about black history and culture than you analedgedly blackdude more than likly you a bit yellow

  • soory you cant read or write can you you inbread asshole excuse for a human good god martin luther would be ashamed of you and so would those musicians you suggest would take your side you are vermin boy

  • @deewilki William Wallace would be ashamed of you...sucking british cock

  • They were chained from their legs to their necksThose academics who insist that slavery is an exclusively Black racial condition forget or deliberately omit the fact that the word slave originally was a reference to Whites of East European origin - "Slavs."

    hey anchor facts dont matter eh you make your own up come up with evidence asshole

  • A study of the middle passage of White slaves was included in a Parliamentary Petition of 1659. It reported that White slaves were locked below deck for two weeks while the slaveship was still in port. Once under way, they were "all the way locked up under decks...amongst horses."

  • psif you want to be technical your not american you are a multi cultural nation made of germans africans scots irish welsh indian you are a nation that is a soup of nations to claim america is a single entity is wrong but cling to your little leadge and ill enjoy pushing you off and pissing on you while your twitching you fuck wit

  • EBEN WHEN LOMAX IS PUT INTO THE EQUASION YOU ARE SO SO IGNORANT ACTUALY COME UP WITH SOME EVIDENCE THAT ROCK AND ROLL .BLUES, RAG , ARE BLACK MUSIC YOU MENTIONED CULTURE AND IT SHOWS YOU STUPIDITY AS CULTURE IS NOT COLOUR STRUCTURED ITS SOCIAL BUT THATS PROBIBLY OVER YOUR HEAD

  • @deewilki YOU ARENT EVEN FUCKING AMERICAN , how the hell is some scottish,dress wearing bag pipe blowing faggot going to tell me, an american, about my culture?

    In the U.S...blues (BLACK FOLK MUSIC) and rock are credited to blacks. Look it up buddy

  • @DeportAnchorBabies I TELL YOU WHAT THANK FUCK IM NOT A YANK IF YOU PERSONIFIE THE usa PS IV FOUGHT ALONG SIDE AMERICANS AND THEY WOULD FUCK YOU OVER FOR EVEN THINKING LIKE YOU DO AND I MEEN BLACK SERVICE MEN THAT HAVE SEEN DUTY NOT JUST THE TIP OF A COCK AS IT GOES INTO YOUR MOUTH

  • PS JUST TO FINISH OFF IF A WHITE GUY HADNT TAKEN TO TROUBLE TO CHART AND FIND ALL THESE AMAZING SINGERS AND SONGWRITERS YOUR "BLACK" HISTORY WOULD NOT BE KNOW

    YOU OWE ALOT TO THE LOMAXES THEY SURE AS HELL DIDNT STAY AWAY DID THEY ????? YOU IGNORANT aaaaassssshoool;llleeeeee

  • @deewilki Many of these singers were already known within the black community , what int he world are you talking about?

    Plus any good deed done by whites like the Lomaxes is null now due to the inordinate number of whites who got rich off of songs done by less known black blues musicians

  • @DeportAnchorBabies ok what singers were known the chatmons or charlie patton who you spunk bubble even if they were known so what your argument wasthat WHITES IGNORED THE BLUES now clearly they didnot but in your mind whos knows look at charlie patton and the chatmons and manymany other BLACK musicians look closley if you dare they are MULATOS

  • @deewilki By law charlie was BLACK.

    Also , them being mulatto, whats that got to do with anything? LOL

  • @deewilki rofl i just checked your profile, you are british? I thought you were a white american

    White britis have nothing to do with american affairs. White british obsession with black american music (northern soul) for example makes sense seeing as how you really lack culture. Beatles,rolling stones, etc etc all made fortunes off of black music

  • @DeportAnchorBabies

    you are a retard im scottish not british ps the beatlesthe rolling stones and probably any other band you peanut shell mind can thinkof are ENGLISH FUCK FUCKING RETARD ps your nation your country everything you stand for IS BRITISH psi think you should look up the slave thing iv gave you enough information for an informed analysys but your too fucking stupid to add one and one

  • @deewilki I dont give a shit.....you arent american...thats my point

  • "It was almost as if the British merchants had redirected their vessels from the African coast to the Irish coast, with the white servants coming over in much the same fashion as the African slaves." (Warren B. Smith, White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina).

  • @deewilki Look up the difference between a slave and a indentured servant

  • "The mercantile firms, as importers of (White) servants, were not too careful about their treatment, as the more important purpose of the transaction was to get ships over to South Carolina which could carry local produce back to Europe. Consequently the Irish--as well as others--suffered greatly...

  • oh can you enlighten me as to how one can "not realy be a slave " but be a slave refer to ludwig wittgenstien and stop talking nonsense

    again as i said to the muppet grey angel dont just read black / whit / yellow/ rightwing / socialist history read it all as eh carr suggests without any bees in your bonnet YAFUCKINGRIDEYESOFULLOFPISH

  • hell im glad im colour blind i can listen to any music

  • Foster R. Dulles writing in Labor in America: A History, states that whether convicts, children 'spirited' from the countryside or political prisoners, White slaves "experienced discomforts and sufferings on their voyage across the Atlantic that paralleled the cruel hardships undergone by negro slaves on the notorious Middle Passage."

  • @deewilki The whole "white slave" thing is played upon by whites trying to pass themselves off as victims. The overwhelming majority of slaves were black = fact

    Most "white slaves" wernt slaves at all , but indentured servants = fact

  • @DeportAnchorBabies oh yes you racist bigoted fuckwit yeah my ancestors asked to to removed from there landby force and have there houses burned down all there cattle slaughtered and there crops burned then by force asked to be put on a slave ship to be transported to the new lands to SERVE ( others ) your are a fuckin vile human and i hope your peers fuck you over how come if black people are servents they are salves ??? you are a moron

  • @deewilki OH YEAH ILL ATTACH MY SELF TO THE BRITISH TAG OH IV ALSO FOUGHT IN 2 WARS KOSOVO 1999 AND 2000 SO IV BEEN ABOUT A BIT AND SEEN MORE THAN MY MUMS PUSSY YOU INBREAD FUCK

    WHAT ABOUT BLACK BRIT ARE THEY IN YOUR GANG OR ANY ARE YOU JUST ANTI WHITE IN ALL ASPECTS YOU ANAL ORIFICE

  • deport i take it jimmy rodgers was black as well

  • OF COURSE HE SOUNDS BLACK YOU NOB HEAD HE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A COMMUNITY THAT HAD MORE CONNECTION TO THAT RACE DUE TO THERE OPPRESSION ILL FINISH BY SAYING YOU ARE A BLACK RACIST AND AFTER ALL THAT HAS BEEN WON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS YOU ARE BACKWARDS

  • it is a made up term to envolope the many genres of music of the time he played ALSO YOU INGORANT DICK THE CHATMON FAMILY WHO ARGUABLY ARE THE FORRUNNERS OF DELTA BLUES AND MANY OTHER FORMS OF MUSIC SUCH AS BO CARTER AND HIS RISKY LYRICS TO SAM CHATMON AND SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD AND THERE FAMILY SKIP JAMES AND CHARLLIE PATTON WERE MULATOS THEY WERE MIXED SHIT I CAN TALK LIKE A LONDERNER OR A YANK DONT MAKE ME SO IF I WAS BROUGHT UP IN FRANCE ID SPEAK FRENCH

  • Sorry but Patton was Half Black and either White or native american.

  • this guy is black and sounds black not white , rock n roll is a black music form , why are they trying to make him look white . and act like its a white form of music,. learn your history.as black were not even allowed any sort of fame at that time in the south, the cheatting lying bastards.

  • @blackangel73 First of all, Music has no color, and Rock and Roll is comprised of forms of "White" and "Black" Music along with other Influences from all types of Ethnicities. Second of all, Charley Patton is mixed. Most importantly, the song is great!

  • @TheKOFFINKING  Sure but rock (its early form) is more Black than anything

    same with blues,jazz, doo wop , etc

  • @DeportAnchorBabies how the hell can music be a color? bro your stuck on some unimportant point of view and phrasing. It's early form still had elements from all ethnicities, quit the shit because it don't matter to me and thats the exact mind frame the same people who you say created it all. Nobody cared except for idiots, and that includes all colors ya dig!

  • @TheKOFFINKING Actually , most people did care

    when this music first came out , whites stayed away from it because it was/is a black musical artform

    Music may not have "color" per se , but it definitely has culture

  • @DeportAnchorBabies Fool, let me fix your head if your ready. Whites did not stay away form it considering there were whites who grew up with Blacks and though it was less seen compared to the racist bullshit that was advertised, though you may not believe it. it happened, and they did grow up together and didn't see prejudice. Just because something isn't as widespread seen doesn't mean it didn't happen or didn't exist.

  • @TheKOFFINKING Whites did stay away from it. Its the truth. They were late comers. Just like every other BLACK art form. Blues,ragtime,jazz,doo wop,rock, etc all started in the black community and whites didnt pick it up till late. Ofcourse when they did there was controversy over it because it was seen as BLACK music , or RACE music is what they use to call it back in the day

  • @DeportAnchorBabies LOL you need to search around a bit more. Your talking about the mainstream white media who called it race music or the other slanderous terms. You mean whites didn't popularize it and then get it labeled as "white music". And I'm familiar with everything your talking about, your still not understanding the unrepresented side of both "races" doing the music together. But hey, keep the hate up because you have an agenda and i know that's all you got to keep you happy.

  • @TheKOFFINKING Agenda? No agenda here , just tired of whites usurping black culture

  • @DeportAnchorBabies prejudice whites stayed away yes, but there were unprejudice whites who weren't following that BS state of mind but thats not what you usually see, i understand. but there were black dudes who have even said that in the south, both "races" were cooperating in it. your hatred makes me yawn. so i've closed the book on you.

  • @TheKOFFINKING Most whites back then were prejudice ( hell most still here) just deal with it. Maybe in areas like the Appalachian arera where blacks and whites were known to congregate amongst one another but thats pretty much it.Stop trying to rewrite history

  • @DeportAnchorBabies LMAO, bro your dumb as fuck. I'm not trying to rewrite history because i know of a history that you don't know about or refuse to journey upon it's facts. I see you with your default picture of a flag burning, most assholes like you try and play nice, yet you have a "racial" agenda. Prejudice, most white people are? lol. I've seen prejudice from all sides, and that is most humans.take your joke ass theory else where. your still boring.

  • @TheKOFFINKING Yada yada yada

    Argue all you want but nothing will change the fact that blues is BLACK music ;)

  • @DeportAnchorBabies and blues can be considered that, and i throw up much respect to it, unlike what your able to do that ROCK AND ROLL IS ALL COLOR MUSIC!!! :)

  • @DeportAnchorBabies DeFord Bailey knows exactly what i'm taking about, and that man sure is black. do i care? no. music is music, so go and try and focus on getting your six pack abs, just as you collectively have favorited repeatedly on your channel, and drop the crap. "deport anchor babies". lol.

  • @DeportAnchorBabies mate your so full of shit ill give you my hanky to wipe your mouth WHITES STAYED AWAY who the hell was the chatmons playing to ( the shieks)  just becuase the media are right wing dont taint every one by some comments here i may suggest that equally you may be racist

  • @DeportAnchorBabies and culture it did have, and it was built upon more then one. Get over it. because it don't hurt me one way or another, keep your unimportant policits to yourself, go find all the people who care about this unimportant issue and go burn in a fire with all colors of idiots. Ya dig.