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We start the second season of Let It Roll with a prequel to last season that covers the period from 1920 to 1945 the opening chapter of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963.
It’s a fun one as Ed Ward and Nate Wilcox talk rock and roll’s prehistory in the era of Victrolas, live radio and swing bands. We talk about the first hit blues record, the first superstars of country music and much more.
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Curtis K Deutsch
5/10/2021 03:12:30 pm
✝️ Rest In Peace Ed Ward
Stephen Ellis
5/24/2021 05:03:21 pm
Hey Guys, Enjoyed the podcast about the music of the 1920s a lot, but with three exceptions: A.P. Carter's "chaffeur" was far more than that, plus he had a name-- Lesley Riddle! Riddle did drive A.P. but his main role was as a fellow musicologist and arranger. In fact, he was the only one who could notate music and was responsible for remembering the tunes they discovered. So the describe him as merely a chaffeur severly distorts his role. The second point is minor: yodeling, a la Jimmie Rodgers, is not Swedish, it's Swiss! Last but not least, Bob Wills wasn't a bad fiddler; he was a decent old-time fiddler, but very rough compared to a Stephane Grappelli acolyte like Johnny Gimble. But please! Let's get Lesley Riddle's name in there! 5/24/2021 07:27:19 pm
Good catches. Sorry about the mistakes. Especially guilty for forgetting Leslie Riddle's name. A lot of names to keep track of and my memory ain't what it used to be.
Klaus D.
6/3/2021 02:14:06 am
Did they really put yodeling to the Swedes? Ohmygod. 6/3/2021 06:49:59 am
LOL. That's more a matter of me misspeaking and neither Ed nor I catching it than not knowing the difference between Sweden and Switzerland (the land of my conception) and which one was the home of yodeling. Leave a Reply. |
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