{"id":6976,"date":"2011-05-04T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:58:39","slug":"pre-rock-musicians-who-tried-their-hand-at-rock-n-roll-and-those-who-should-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pre-rock-musicians-who-tried-their-hand-at-rock-n-roll-and-those-who-should-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Rock Musicians Who Tried Their Hand at Rock \u2018n Roll, and Those Who Should Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7fzESGmgdwE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Leaving out first-generation rock &#8216;n rollers whose earliest recordings may have predated the blossoming of rock &#8216;n roll and leaving out novelty goofs on the genre by pre- or barely-rock artists like <strong>Pat Boone <\/strong>and his heavy metal album, what pre-rock &#8216;n roll musicians tried their hand at making an outright rock &#8216;n roll record?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muddy Waters<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Electric Mud <\/em>album springs to mind. It&#8217;s pretty bad, but it&#8217;s a wholesale rockified take on a well-established bluesman&#8217;s sound. I would think other blues artists who were being celebrated by 1960s rock &#8216;n roll kids made rock albums to some extent or another, but some old bluesman doing almost what he&#8217;d already done with the backing of <strong>The Yardbirds<\/strong> or <strong>Canned Heat<\/strong> isn&#8217;t really what I have in mind. Those records weren&#8217;t really\u00a0the artist&#8217;s\u00a0move into rock &#8216;n roll as much as they were sponsorship for a move into the rock &#8216;n roll bins of record stores.<\/p>\n<p>Already established blues legends moving into rock &#8216;n roll must have been a fairly natural shift, as would some established country artists rocking up their sound, but I&#8217;m most curious to know whether the likes of a jazz musician or Big Band singer\u2014someone from a\u00a0genre that&#8217;s not considered a direct antecedent of rock &#8216;n roll\u2014tried his or her hand at rock &#8216;n roll. <strong>Frank Sinatra<\/strong> dueting on a pre-rock or pre-rock style song with <strong>Bono<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Or if one doesn&#8217;t come to mind, let your imagination run wild. Which pre-rock musician would you have most liked to hear cut a real rock &#8216;n roll record, in a style of your choosing? Put the musician in a time machine, if you&#8217;d like, and speculate on the style of rock &#8216;n roll that may have best fit <strong>Nat King Cole<\/strong>, for instance.<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving out first-generation rock &#8216;n rollers whose earliest recordings may have predated the blossoming of rock &#8216;n roll and leaving out novelty goofs on the genre by pre- or barely-rock artists like Pat Boone and his heavy metal album, what pre-rock &#8216;n roll musicians tried their hand at making an outright rock &#8216;n roll record? <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pre-rock-musicians-who-tried-their-hand-at-rock-n-roll-and-those-who-should-have\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}