they're only the two greatest solo artists in World history....
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Back in the 20's a hillbilly band called...The Skillet Lickers, recorded the tune....Run ****** Run....and that was just one of many "coon songs" back in the day. Then we had what was known as "race records" yep, records made by black artists for the black audience. A lot of smut here, with lyrics like....I want to ride my mule....my banana in your fruit basket....black snake moan.....nobody is talking snakes, bananas and mules. And this went on for a long time. With white guys like Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Elvis well aware of that music, something most white folks wouldn't be caught dead listening to. That's jiggaboo music, it's for those savages.
Then in the early 50's, things begin to change a little with rock and roll and black croups like The Crows bringing a less...we is black...sound to the public. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino all getting what had to be done to sell records, that being ease off...we is black.
Country music in the beginning was just a white cat singing his blues, we saw a heavy black influense there. Rock and roll obviously blues influensed, especially Elvis who was a huge fan of Big Boy Crudup, to the point of making his first record....That's Alright Mama....a Crudup cover.
Hard to imagine where we'd be musically without the black influense.
Big Boy never saw a dime, this being the tune that launched the career of Elvis Presley.
Like Big Boy, Big Mama never saw a dime......
