[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[Joe Scott]

Oh, a recording has to excite you for you to think it's within a particular genre. Not me.
Joseph Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Erwin Kluwer
Sent: 03/07/14 01:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

cause it drags and doesn't rock.... Even Bill Monroe in 1946 or Flatf & Scruggs in 1948/9 had way more forward momentum, looseness and excitement (a few of the nescessary ingredients of true rock ' roll) then this heavy, dull stuff. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote: > Let's take "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston. In your opinion why is it > not true rock and roll? > > Joseph Scott > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Erwin Kluwer > Sent: 03/06/14 01:20 PM > To: 78-L Mail List > Subject: Re: [78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey > > What a nonsense to indentify some jump blues records as true Rock ' n Roll > and dismiss Sun records seminal place in creating the genre ... Talking > about ignorance!!!! On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Joe Scott < > joenscott at mail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > I wish Escott were enough of > an expert on early rock and roll and/or > forthright enough that the > existence of 1949 recordings such as "Rock The > Joint"* by Jimmy Preston, > "Hole In The Wall" by Albennie Jones, "Rock That > Boogie" by Jimmy Smith, > and "Boogie At Midnight" by Roy Brown, which all > sound similar to each > other because they were all part of a new fad sound, > before Sun existed, > a sound that Billboard was calling "rockers" before Sun > existed, would > prevent him from coauthoring a book called _Good Rockin' > Tonight: Sun > Records And The Birth Of Rock 'N' Roll_. The idea that Sun > Records had > something to do with the birth of rock and roll sells great and > is > completely false. > > Joseph Scott > > *The first record Escott ever own > ed was the London LP _Rock The Joint_ by > Bill Haley. > ----- Original > Message ----- > From: warren moorman > Sent: 03/06/14 09:50 AM > To: 78-L > Mail List > Subject: Re: [78-L] Lester Young - or Arnold Corey? > > [...] > Colin Escott, who's authoritative knowledge of country and early > > rock&roll is unquestionable, was associated with the most incredible liner > > note howler I've ever known, not once but twice. In his first book on Sun > > records, he printed an extremely unlikely explanation about Eddie Hill's > > record "The Hot Guitar", then many years later, a Mercury box set he > > produced carried a different but equally preposterous explanation. Yet he's > > undoubtedly expert[....] > > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing list > > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com <javascript:;> <javascript:;> > > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > > _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com <javascript:;> > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailm > an/listinfo/78-l > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing list > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com <javascript:;> > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l