Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - So Glad You're Mine (Live 1973)

goes down like good scotch!

beautiful voice

Soooo True there Mr!

Elvin Preston?

U-uh. There's blues and there's blues. Obviously this song is not what teenagers are gonna dance to. But rhythm and blues - the stuff rock WAS directly constructed from - is a LOT more danceable to and rebellious even than rock n roll itself. It's a racial and cultural and class thing (what else do you need) also. Don't tell me if a white teenager is exposed to Elmore James in the 50's and it's really "just about the music" it's not HELL of a more groundbreaking than a sellout like elvis.

I agree totally with what you've posted. Apart from the bit about Elvis. I think he had a genuine regard for Afro-American music and that he never 'set-out' to represent a non Afro-American point of view. I don't think he was academic in ANY way, and that this sort of critiquing of his popularity reveals a hidden reverse racism itself. He took an awful lot of stick from the music establishment when he first started making his name - mostly from 'white folks' like Sinatra
Bob
Bob

First off, you are assuming that Rock and Roll came strictly from RnB. You're dismissing the country/hillbilly influence. Elvis' along with Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and Carl Perkins were groundbreakiers because they built upon the blues/gospel/and COUNTRY music they grew up on. Elvis' first 5 Sun records where covers of blues songs, AND hillbilly-and he injected a new rhythm into each. It was called Rockabilly, and it's a major influence on Rock and Roll.

No, we were discussing blues and how it was received by the younger white generation at the time, so of course I didn't go into a lecture on the complete roots of rock. Not to mention that rhythm and blues itself also has country and hillbilly influence and roots, you can't really separate these at the point when it's all the popular music of the time in one way or another.

Agreed-to discuss the history of Rock would take to long to do here. Needless to say it goes back before Elvis and Crudup. My original point was that I think the blues, pure blues, like Crudup could never be sold on a national level to the rising demographic of the American teen-hence they were forgotten about, and sadly the industry virtually forgot them. But I dont think Elvis himself is the blame for that. If anything, his versions may have led some listeners to the original artists.

Timeless and priceless clip of this under rated giant of the blues...
Thanks bobblues, keep posting them!