Rocket 88: Early Rock & Roll (1951)
Rocket '88 B-side: Come Back Where You Belong Released: April 1951 Recorded: March 1951 Label: Chess Songwriter: Jackie Brenston (credited), Ike Turner (uncredited) Producer: Sam Phillips The roots of rock and roll are in the rhythm and blues (then called " race music ") and country music (then called " hillbilly music .") According to the writer Robert Palmer: "Rock 'n' roll was an inevitable outgrowth of the social and musical interactions between blacks and whites in the South and Southwest. Its roots are a complex tangle; bedrock black church music influenced blues. Rural blues-influenced white folk songs and the black popular music of the Northern ghettos; blues, black pop-influenced jazz, and so on. But the most critical process was the influence of black music on white . Read more: " Present Tense . Duke University Press. pp. 13–38.