RE: 50 albums that changed the face of music
2006/07/28 17:22:16
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ORIGINAL: attalus
ORIGINAL: AT
Jimmy Rodgers. The first cross over artist. Country/blues is rock.
I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma
just to see her jump and fall
"T is for Texas"
Ray Charles is a artist who i believe have had hit records in many genres- Jazz, Blues, Country etc I'll have to check my facts but i believe he hit within top ten song list on many genres. His inspiration to 'MANY' genres was significant and i've read many artist stating his influence on them. And the lenghth of his career is amazing. plus he left the world with his last work, and movie on him being a success (he went out with a bang, and strenghthened his legacy). Finally, he used Sonar
Jimmy Rodgers died c. 1933, so I think he was a little before Mr. Charles. He was also the 1st white boy to record "race music" as they so charmingly called it back then. Somebody else would have done blues and hillbillie music together, but he recorded it first.
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24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.