The Blues Foundation Podcast - Season 1: Blues Hall of Fame
Roy Brown may be best known for writing the iconic, genre-warping song "Good Rockin’ Tonight."
Brown had a hit with it, then it was re-recorded by his hero Wynonie Harris, who also had a hit with it. Just a few years after that, further cementing the songs rightful place in music history, Elvis Presley recorded the song for Sun Records.
But there was more to Brown than Good Rockin'. You know that powerful, quivering, pleading, shouting manner in which most of today’s great singers sing? We take it for granted these days, but it wasn’t always like that.
That style of singing comes from the African American church. And when Roy Brown first brought that feel and phrasing to blues music, it was a social and cultural taboo.
That’s right, all that good rockin’ and all that soulful shouting that took over popular music can be traced back to the blues of Roy Brown.
This is his story.
Roy Brown inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981.
026 - Dinah Washington
025 - Bukka White
024 - Bessie Smith
023 - Charley Patton
022 - Ma Rainey
021 - Son House
020 - Honeyboy Edwards
019 - Ray Charles
018 - Fats Domino
017 - Don Robey
016 - Rufus Thomas
015 - Sam Phillips
014 - John Lee Hooker
012 - Muddy Waters
011 - Louis Jordan
010 - Skip James
009 - Little Richard
008 - Memphis Minnie
007 - W.C. Handy
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