A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

Welcome to episode six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today were looking at the Ink Spots and Thats When Your Heartaches Begin Resources As always, Ive created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in th

Welcome to episode five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today were looking at Sister Rosetta Tharpe and This Train Resources As always, Ive created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. M

Welcome to episode four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today were looking at Louis Jordan and Choo Choo ChBoogie Resources As always, Ive created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in t

Welcome to episode three of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today were looking at Bob Wills and Ida Red. Resources As always, Ive created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. I mention

Transcript This is not a full episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. The full episode will also turn up in your podcatcher. But I thought I should do a separate episode as a disclaimer. Im placing this one here because in the next epsiode prop

Heres the second episode, on Roll Em Pete by Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson. One erratum before we continue -- in the episode, I say that Shake, Rattle, and Roll follows a particular formula common in hokum songs. Thats not actually true for the origina

Welcome to the first episode proper of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs! As this is the first real episode, you may notice a couple of flaws in the production -- those will hopefully get ironed out in the coming weeks. In the meantime, sit back

Welcome to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs! Episode 1, the first episode proper, is coming next week, but for now heres an introduction, laying out my plans for the series. As I say in the tag at the end of every episode, please, if you like this ep