Listening: Blues through Rockabilly
The form of this song is typical of many city-blues songs.
What is 12-bar blues?
This song by the Beach Boys includes vocal textures inspired by this vocal harmony style performed primarily in Black urban neighborhoods where instruments were financially out of reach.
What is doo-wop?
This band was known for breaking their instruments during concerts.
Who is The Who?
This post-war country and western style was played in bars and dance clubs, with themes including heartbreak and hardships.
What is honky-tonk?
This 1940s studio, later called "Rhythm and Blues," marketed primarily to African Americans.
What is race records?
The band who sang this song later influenced the name of the Beatles.
Who are The Crickets?
This song is performed by this Girl Group.
Who is The Shirelles?
While some groups tried to imitate The Beatles, this group eventually chose a contrasting image.
Who is The Rolling Stones?
This style was a predominantly black American folksong tradition of the 20th century, and the single most important influence on the development of popular music around the world.
What is blues?
This studio was owned by Sam Phillips who searched for "a white performer who sounded black."
What is Sun Records (Studios)?
This 50s R&B song by Little Richard includes this rhythmic piano style.
What is boogie-woogie?
This song is representative of this style/era of music.
What is the British Invasion?
This group began as a Western swing group, but in "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" used a jump-blues boogie beat.
Who are Bill Haley and His Comets?
This style was a close relative to R&B and was described as "a country man's song with a Black man's rhythm."
What is rockabilly?
This person in the studio sets up a recording date, and is ultimately responsible for the sound of a finished record.
Who is a producer?
This electrified Delta blues performer incorporated a "talking blues" element in this song.
Who is John Lee Hooker?
What is Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This iconic folk singer who moved from Oklahoma to the NYC area in 1940, recorded the album Dust Bowl Ballads.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
A bouncy, youthful 1960s style that went well beyond the standard three chords of early rock.
What is surf rock?
This record studio in Chicago was known for recording songs by Muddy Waters and others in the electric blues style.
This ballad by Hank Williams features a solo played by this instrument often heard in Honky-Tonk music and other country styles.
What is a steel guitar?
The backing of this song is inspired by this Afro-Brazilian dance.
The folk revival was aided by music recorded by this folklorist/archivist.
Who is Alan Lomax?
This style often incorporated a slide-guitar technique on an acoustic instrument and a solo voice on top.
What is country blues?
A "songwriters' central" in New York City where Carole King and Neil Sedaka started in the 1960s.
What is the Brill Building?