Birth of Rock & Roll Music 1954-1959 Project: No. 10: Early Influences: Ike Turner, Sam Phillips, and Accidental/Unintentional Electric Guitar Fuzz and Distortion
This is an up-tempo R&B record from 1951, produced in Memphis, TN by Sam Phillips, the man who would three years later produce and release, on his own Sun label, the first records of Elvis Presley. Ike Turner and his band traveled by car from Clarksdale, MS to Memphis for the record date with Phillips. […]
Newsletter for November 2019
BIRMINGHAM RECORD COLLECTORS DEDICATED TO THE COLLECTING OF MUSIC, ITS PRESERVATION AND LASTING FRIENDSHIP MONTHLY MEETING THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 2019 – 2:00 PM HOMEWOOD LIBRARY – 1721 OXMOOR ROAD 35209 NEXT MEETING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8th, 2019 THE SECOND SUNDAY THIS MONTH’S MEETING After last month’s meeting I jokingly said to one of our members […]
Birth of Rock & Roll Music Project: No. 9: early influences: Les Paul & Mary Ford
Les Paul, inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the year 1988. Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame in the year 2005. Died at the age of 94 in the year 2009. Rock on! Mike
Birth of Rock & Roll Music Project: No. 8: early influences: Invention of the Solid Body Electric Guitar
Who was Paul Bigsby? Who was Les Paul? Who was Leo Fender? Paul Bigsby was an American inventor who was a pioneer of the solid body electric guitar. He built such a guitar for singer, songwriter and guitarist Merle Travis in 1948. This instrument made brand new guitar sounds, with more volume, and with no […]