Week 9 - Birth Of Rock 'N' Roll

Question 1

Maybelle Carter

Answer 1

Play the guitar and with Wildwood flowers in abated a simple yet powerful technique known as the carter scratch

Question 2

Jimmie Rodgers

Answer 2

Known as the singing break man because he had come up working on the railroad

• sold 10 million records by 36 years old
• he died of tuberculosis soon after recording the TB blues

Question 3

The Nashville sound

Answer 3

Sound can certainly be heard on the recordings of Patsy Cline.
- The sound was a mess from the opera to the operator meeting westerns to lovesick honky-tonk

Question 4

Jump band

Answer 4

Refers to the music of Louis Jordan who even in the mid-1940s was producing a sound incredibly close to full-fledged rock ‘n’ roll

• Caledonia
• featuring the backbeat rhythm on 2/4

Question 5

Delta blues

Answer 5

Refers to musicians from the Mississippi Delta such as Robert Johnson. Created the expressive lead a soloist to guitar style

Question 6

Gospel music

Answer 6

Had the repetition expression and excitement of the congregation which would later carryover to rhythm and blues audience thanks to Ray Charles

Question 7

1955 best heralded rock n roll intro

Answer 7

Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode

Question 8

What is rock ‘n’ roll

Answer 8

Rock ‘n’ roll music itself was really quite synonymous with rhythm and blues in the 50s with a simple three-chord progression and driving beat.

• it is rumored that a DJ and Cleveland named Alan freed needed a new name for his R&B radio show so he called it the rock ‘n’ roll show
• Rock ‘n’ roll was slowly being shut down but was re-introduced by the Beatles

Question 9

Buddy Holly

Answer 9

Growing up in Lubbock Texas putting together a band called the crickets an inspiration for the Beatles

Question 10

Electric guitars

Answer 10

Companies such as fender Gibson and Gretsch put magnetic pick ups under the strings