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Hometown:	Ohio
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The History of Rock N Roll part one

It all starts somewhere…
With the American Dream as the big payoff for WWII dads across America just back from saving the world in Europe, life certainly wasn’t Leave it Beaver.

The New Deal wasn’t exposing itself on front lawn. Commies and the Cold War weren’t what the neighborhood in America served up. While the FBI was searching in vain for the reds, the music world was discovering the blues. The working class spawned artists looking for blind faith.

Mainstream America was bland, and found identity in pop culture. Woolworths’s was where the Baby boomer’s parents shopped and became consumers like never before. Teens found freedom and solace in the back seats of cars. With the backdrop of Vietnam and I Love Lucy, young teenagers got their first guitars and started to strum them and learn how to play.

The American Dream atomic family wasn’t available for the abandoned youth. Race in the South was separate but equal, but music had no prejudice. James Dean and Joe Dimaggio played the big screen while the teenagers played the pool halls and cruised the streets with their newly pubescent muscle cars. Driving and dreaming to word play from beat poets describing the proverbial pursuit of happiness down Route 66.

Music had a mix of New Orleans jazz, Delta blues, Nashville country, Texas swing, and Northern folk. The roads and small towns had hamburger stands and soda jerks and cruise ins, a place where kids could listen to the radio with out Dad banging on the wall telling them to turn down the record player.

Blacks had been rolling along with ragtime, which was an evolved boogie woogie and jump blues. The whites had country, and down home blue grass, the ferver getting shaky from the influence of jazz from the southern regions and the blues infiltrating from the delta. Swing and Creole rhythms were an added ingredient in what was to come out of honky tonks and juke boxes across the nation.

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