[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[Erwin Kluwer]

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On Friday, March 7, 2014, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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:;><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 P
>  reston, > "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 h
>  owler 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[....] > >
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