![]() ![]() Wills is quoted as saying “Rock and Roll? Why, man, that’s the same kind of music we’ve been playin’ since 1928! But it’s just basic rhythm and has gone by a lot of different names in my time. Recordings of Wills from the mid-40s to the early 50s include “two beat jazz” rhythms, “jazz choruses”, and guitar work that preceded early rockabilly recordings. These corresponded to the public’s passion for Cowboy movies and the growing popularity of Big Bands. Western Swing by bands like Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, which combined country singing and steel guitar with big band jazz influences with horn sections.During the 1930s and 1940s two new country sounds emerged: Jimmie Rodgers, known as the ‘Blue Yodeler’, was perhaps the “first true country star.” The structure of most of his songs were blues-based chord progressions, although his blues had different instrumentation and sound from the recordings of his black blues contemporaries like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Bessie Smith. The first nationwide country hit was ‘Wreck of the Old ’97’ followed by ‘Lonesome Road Blues’. In its earlier form, there was an implication of a rich tradition of country music that embodied a variety of sources from the Blues to Cowboy, Western Swing and Boogie Woogie. By the time the Beverly Hillbillies was a hit on TV, the word had grown to imply: ‘Hick’ or ‘country’ used as a derogatory. ![]() ![]() The term morphed over time to acquire different meanings with new generations. ‘Hillbilly’ was a term used to describe some country music or mountain music. The word “rockabilly” is a fusion of “rock” (from “rock’n’roll”) and “hillbilly”. ![]()
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