Origins of ROCK AND ROLL, Rock Awhile, Goree Carter, 1949 | Part 1 of 20

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"Rock Awhile" by Goree Carter was recorded in April 1949. It has been cited as a contender for the "first rock and roll record" title according to the New York Times. Carter's over-driven electric guitar style was similar to that of Chuck Berry from 1955 onward. Critic Rober Palmer also cited " its lyrical instruction to “rock awhile,” and the way the guitar crackled through an overdriven amp".

The origins of rock and roll are complex. Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music. It was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music. Rock and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music that, since the mid-1960s, has been generally known simply as rock music.


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