Roots Concert Review Last month I attended a live performance by the Roots. The show took place at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. Once inside the venue I was surprised to see how small the club actually was. I have seen The Roots three times prior to the 15th at venues where it was i...
Jimi Hendrix: The Man, The Myth, & The Music Jimi Hendrix was an American musician whose innovative electric guitar playing had a profound role on influencing rock music and its culture. Jimi was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, ...
All of the genres were collected under the catch-all term "dance," though there were distinct differences between dance-pop, hip-hop, house, and techno, among other subgenres. ... Early rock & roll drew from a variety of sources, primarily blues, R&B, and country, but also gospel, traditional pop, jazz, and folk. ... Evolving out of jump blues in the late '40s, R&B laid the groundwork for rock & roll. R&B kept the tempo and the drive of jump blues, but its instrumentation was sparer and the emphasis was on the song, not improvisation. It was blues chord changes played with an insistent ba...
During one week, I looked for information in the library and at my house, and from the information I gathered and my one knowledge about the topic, I'm going to lead the reader to a better understanding of Rock n' Roll. ... It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz played by blacks. ... At the same time, there of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock music, like rhythm and blues, which was suggested by played by Elvis Costello. ...
As long as there has been rock music there have been illegal narcotics. The connection between rock artists and the sedatives is well known and very controversial. The use of drugs is almost always an essential ingredient in the recipe for rock and roll. Usually the artists that are singing about th...
