September 2010
1 post
The great lost British indie r'n'b revolution of...
The standard narrative of pop tells us how, after the initial US rock’n’roll explosion of the ’50s, Brit musicians who’d grown up on Elvis and Chuck Berry sold the sound back to the Yanks in the ’60s, transmogrified. Those who dug deeper - the Beatles, the Who, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison - even reached back to the sound of the blues and r’n’b and, in...