Elvis Presely's Influence On Early Rock And Roll

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The influence of blues music on early rock and roll is undeniable, and can be easily identified. Rock and roll certainly drew upon blues music for a number of its elements; underlying themes, instrumentation, and vocal style to name a few. Let us therefore compare Elvis Presley's early rock and roll song "Blue Moon of Kentucky" to Son House's "Walkin' Blues" to demonstrate this influence. Elvis Presely's early forays into music writing were marked by a number of influences, many of which were "race records" : blues, spiritual blues, and modern rythym and blues. This influence is seen in many of his works, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" being one of them. One very obvious similarity was that both songs used the same form, which is to say a single

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