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Yep. If you listen to "hillbilly music" and "blues" from the 20s and 30s, or "rock" and "r&b" from the 50s or 60s, they are musically indistinguishable. The dif

Yep. If you listen to "hillbilly music" and "blues" from the 20s and 30s, or "rock" and "r&b" from the 50s or 60s, they are musically indistinguishable. The difference almost always solely lies in the race of the musicians or the target audience

krapp 5y ago
Literally the reason "rock and roll" exists as a label was to segregate "ethnic" (read: Black) music in record stores and on the radio for a white audience.
- wholinator2 5y ago
  Interesting and damning claim! Do you have a source for it? Ive googled around and found no mention of race in the articles I've read
  - bobbybabylon 5y ago
    It is in the Bob Dylan article itself.
ndesaulniers 5y ago
I finally got around to listening to Led Zepplin I the other day...a couple of times I thought to myself "man, this sounds like the blues."
- awithrow 5y ago
  A lot of heavy metal is the blues played very fast and with heavy distortion. So many of the solos by Pantera use the blues scale
- hackflip 5y ago
  Half their songs are covers of older blues songs.
  - harry8 5y ago
    Plagiarized. They really did claim to have written "Killing Floor" with a stupid title of "The Lemon Song." Howlin' Wolf had been to london and recorded with Clapton. Hendrix had played a scorching version of it on BBC Radio One. No way they could have missed just that one. Then all the Willie Dixon. It's embarrassing how often Page/Plant claimed to have written classic blues and robbed working folk artists. Lowered my opinion of them significantly to see it so if you want to hero-worship them maybe skip compilations like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA And that's just some of it. When they stopped doing it the quality of their output fell off a cliff.
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- Digit-Al 5y ago
  Hard rock and heavy metal have their roots in the blues. All of the early bands that defined those genres straddled the line between blues and rock. Led Zeppelin were heavily influenced by the blues; but also if you listen to a band like Deep Purple you will hear the blues influence all over the place. Hendrix, of course, supercharged the blues and it would be difficult to say if he was a blues or rock performer. Even Black Sabbath showed their blues influences in many songs.

krapp 5y ago

Literally the reason "rock and roll" exists as a label was to segregate "ethnic" (read: Black) music in record stores and on the radio for a white audience.

wholinator2 5y ago
Interesting and damning claim! Do you have a source for it? Ive googled around and found no mention of race in the articles I've read
- bobbybabylon 5y ago
  It is in the Bob Dylan article itself.

ndesaulniers 5y ago

I finally got around to listening to Led Zepplin I the other day...a couple of times I thought to myself "man, this sounds like the blues."

awithrow 5y ago
A lot of heavy metal is the blues played very fast and with heavy distortion. So many of the solos by Pantera use the blues scale
hackflip 5y ago
Half their songs are covers of older blues songs.
- harry8 5y ago
  Plagiarized. They really did claim to have written "Killing Floor" with a stupid title of "The Lemon Song." Howlin' Wolf had been to london and recorded with Clapton. Hendrix had played a scorching version of it on BBC Radio One. No way they could have missed just that one. Then all the Willie Dixon. It's embarrassing how often Page/Plant claimed to have written classic blues and robbed working folk artists. Lowered my opinion of them significantly to see it so if you want to hero-worship them maybe skip compilations like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA And that's just some of it. When they stopped doing it the quality of their output fell off a cliff.
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Digit-Al 5y ago
Hard rock and heavy metal have their roots in the blues. All of the early bands that defined those genres straddled the line between blues and rock. Led Zeppelin were heavily influenced by the blues; but also if you listen to a band like Deep Purple you will hear the blues influence all over the place. Hendrix, of course, supercharged the blues and it would be difficult to say if he was a blues or rock performer. Even Black Sabbath showed their blues influences in many songs.