Blues and Rhythm

Remembering the great music legends who built rock and roll, 1935-1965.

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I feel safe in stating that no white person can conceive the feeling of obtaining Caucasian respect in the wake of a world of dark denial, simply because it is impossible to view the dark side when faced with brilliance.

All pop music that takes America as a subject—whether winding toward tragedy or toward an even sweeter harmony—runs off this mountain. Written when Berry was in prison; he needed an atlas to get the geography right, and when he requested one from the prison library, word went out that he was plotting an escape—which, of course, he was. 

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Chuck Berry, Father of Rock and Roll. Rest in peace. #bluesandrhythm

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The Crests. #bluesandrhythm

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Chuck Berry. #bluesandrhythm

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The Belmonts. #bluesandrhythm

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Little Walter. #bluesandrhythm

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Ruth Brown. #bluesandrhythm

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Ray Charles — What Would I Do Without You (1958)

What would I do without you To see me through?

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Faye Adams. #bluesandrhythm

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Booker T. Jones #bluesandrhythm

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Little Richard (meeting his adoring fans, The Beatles, backstage). #bluesandrhythm

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This photo of Big Maybelle (born Mabel Louise Smith in Jackson, Tennessee) appeared in a 1956 issue of Jet magazine.

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Dinah Washington in performance, Los Angeles, 1959, photo by William Claxton

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B.B. King