Blue Lineage - Black American Music Timeline

This episode covers some of the core Rock n Roll innovators and musicians, it also discusses some of the cultural and social issues surrounding the genre.  

Topics covered: Big Joe Turner, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, and discussion about the borrowing of music and cultural appropriation.  

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This episode covers the Music Industry's Influence on Genres, R&B, Early Rock n Roll, Black Radio, and the influence of Black DJs.  

Topics covered: R&B Charts, Nat D Williams, Joseph Deighton Gibson, Rudy Toombs, Ruth Brown and BB King.  

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This episode covers Electric Blues, Al Benson and continues to explore Jump Blues, early R&B and Rock N Roll influences.

Topics covered Muddy Waters, Al Benson, Roy Brown, T-Bone Walker, and The American Folk Blues Festival.

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This episode covers Robert Johnson, Jump Blues, early R&B and Rock N Roll influences. 

Topics covered Robert Johnson, Champion Jack Dupree,  James Reese Europe, American Federation of Musicians, Tommy McClennan, Louis Jordan.  

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This episode covers early delta blues musicians, early Black radio and the influence of electric technology.  Topics covered Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Jack L Cooper, Electric Recording Technology, Electric Guitar, Black Radio, Urban Theater Circuit.

First episode of the Black American Music Timeline covering pre-blues influences, and early blues history. Topics include WC Handy, Mamie Smith, The Great Migration, Minstrel Shows, Race Records and Tin Pan Alley.

Introduction to the Blue Lineage video podcast and website, www.bluelineage.com 

Introduces the Black American Music Timeline which covers the history of Blues, R&B, Rock, Funk & Soul.  

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