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Capitol From the Vaults 5: Roots Rock N Roll
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Capitol From the Vaults 5: Roots Rock N Roll
Genres: Country, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Capitol From the Vaults 5: Roots Rock N Roll
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Capitol
Release Date: 1/9/2001
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Country, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Classic Country, Swing Jazz, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724352829224

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You won't find rock 'n' roll's roots here!
Lee Hartsfeld | Central Ohio, United States | 03/05/2001
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Much of the earliest mass-market rock 'n' roll sounded like a mix of country and rhythm and blues. Consequently, most rock journalists/historians assume that rock must have evolved from both of these forms. In fact, Billy Vera, in the liner notes to this CD, asserts that rock 'n' roll "had many sources," and we are offered 25 selections, consisting primarily of hillbilly-boogie sides and the tamest possible rhythm and blues, that allegedly prove as much. They don't even come close.With the exception of one or two tracks, nothing here sounds much like rock 'n' roll or the roots of same. None of the country tracks (all pre-Elvis) sound anything like rockabilly, and none of the r&b sides rock in the manner of Johnny Otis, Paul Williams, Hal Singer, or any number of other black artists of the period covered. Have the compilers deliberately misrepresented the black popular music of this period in an attempt to play it down, historically? Probably. Why, is anybody's guess.At any rate, the listener's willingness to accept this CD as a credible rock-roots document will depend on how easily he or she can accept people like Dean Martin, Tex Williams ("Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!"), ex-Tommy-Dorsey vocalist Jo Stafford, and Mary Ford as rock pioneers. The music itself is great, and the sound restoration is superb. But the folks behind this curiosity seem to have overestimated their audience's credulity."