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BONUS: Question and Answer Episode 2

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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The History of Soul Divorce From the History of Rock

The most popular Ruckabilly guitar was a Gretch. Chet Atkins himself played these guitars on sessions for Elvis and the Avli brothers. Bo Diddley also played a Gretch, before he started playing his own custom built guitar. There is literally no difference stylistically between maggot brain by Funkadelic and things like Peter Green ear F Fleetwood Mac or Watermelon in East A.H.A. by Frank Zappa.

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