Introduction

The history of rock music and 500 songs. A biography. Episode 3. Rock n roll. Why man? That's the same kind of music we've been playing since 1928. We didn't call it rock n roll back when we introduced it as our style back in 1928. The rhythm's what's important. Bob Will said that in 1957. And it brings up an interesting question. What's in a name? genre names have a strange thing, aren't they? In particular, did you ever notice how many of them had the word and in them? Rhythm n blues. Country n western. There's sort of a reason for that. Only once you give a collection of things a