Chill out and rock out with these Black Rock n Roll musicians.
1. Ma Rainey
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=S8EB78QYrCM. Via YouTube
Future Influences: Bessie Smith (who was her pupil), Janis Joplin
2. Bessie Smith
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=go6TiLIeVZA. Via YouTube
Future Influences: Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin
3. Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ. Via YouTube
Future Influences: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley
4. Fats Domino
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8mix3gmzPa0. Via YouTube
Future Influence: Big Al Downing
5. Big Al Downing
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gWcqnm2J7wo. Via YouTube
While he was too little known to have much influence, he would go on to have hits in multiple genres. Early in his career, he worked with rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson and they recorded the rockabilly song “Let’s Have A Party”.
6. Chuck Berry
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg. Via YouTube
Future Influences:The Rolling Stones, The Beatles
7. Little Richard
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jqxNSvFMkag. Via YouTube
Future Influences: David Bowie, Paul McCartney
8. Jimi Hendrix
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9irsg1vBmq0. Via YouTube
Future Influences: Vernon Reid of the band Living Colour, Stevie Ray Vaughan
9. Poly Styrene and her band X-Ray Spex
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FYMObdOqcRg. Via YouTube
Future Influence: Tamar-Kali, Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth, Noisettes
10. Bad Brains
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PaXikmzQX_I. Via YouTube
Future Influences: The Beastie Boys, The Foo Fighters
11. Living Colour
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tTjKWq9Gges. Via YouTube
Future Influences: Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit
12. Death
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=izw1_LYSThU. Via YouTube
Future Influence: Rough Francis, whose band members are the sons and nephews of Death’s original lead singer David Hackney. For more info, check out the documentary A Band Called Death (it’s on Netflix).
13. Tamar-Kali
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-6-WQTjiIyU. Via YouTube
Influenced by: Poly Styrene, Betty Davis, Bad Brains, P. J. Harvey
14. Divinity Roxx
Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z9GStN8JKhQ. Via YouTube
Influences: Jimi Hendrix, Outkast, Foo Fighters
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Chuck Berry – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bo Diddley – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime … [14] Williams later played lead guitar on “Who Do You Love?” (1956).
Sister Rosetta Tharpe ~ Film: The Godmother of Rock & Roll … – PBS
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Rock music – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Origins of rock and roll – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Rock ‘n’ roll was an inevitable outgrowth of the social and musical interactions between blacks and whites in …
Elvis Rocks. But He’s Not the First – TIME
6 Jul 2004 … … may well have been the first rock ‘n’ roll record, and in the years that … It’s also not news that some of the black musicians that helped lay the …
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, established in 1983 and located in … of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others …
Little Richard | biography – American musician | Encyclopedia …
Little Richard, original name Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932, Macon, Georgia, U.S.), flamboyant American singer and pianist whose hit …
Jimi Hendrix | Music | The Guardian
When Jimi Hendrix came to London, he changed the sound of music for ever … Watch an exclusive clip from the film about legendary musician Jimi Hendrix, …
Black Pioneers in Rock n Roll