A heated discussion on 'Race, Gender & the Blues'

[Jay Watterworth]

Those three gentlemen (along with others) defined Rock and Roll.  They might
have come from a R&B background, but they all quickly made rock what it is.
To buttonhole blacks in R&B takes a lot out of what rock really is.

I am not denigrating R&B by any means though I don't care much for
contemporary R&B.  James Brown, Otis Redding, etc. represented that art form
pretty well even though they had a taste of rock from time to time and
certainly influenced rock.

Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: chuck 249
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:59 PM
To: BLUES-L@LISTSERV.NETHELPS.COM
Subject: Re: A heated discussion on 'Race, Gender & the Blues'

I really don't think of those cats as rock stars....R&B stars, yes.

Try again.

On May 23, 2012, at 21:05, "jinxblues@aol.com" <jinxblues@aol.com> wrote:


One wonders...at least this one wonders....why is it that there are so
many white blues acts/artists, while so very, very few black rock and
country acts/artists? If the theory about it being all about the
money, then it would only make sense that black artists would have
migrated into the rock and country genres, where there has long been
more money to be made than in the blues genre. That has not happened.
Jimi and Mr Pride. Ray Charles took a few stabs at the country genre
in the 60s. There you have it.

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I have given this some
CHUCK BERRY!
thought and you are
LITTLE RICHARD!
right, I don't know of any . . .
BO DIDDLEY!

Dick Waterman
1601 Buchanan Avenue
Oxford, MS 38655

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