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Roots rock is a genre of rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. [1] It is seen as responses to the perceived excesses of the dominant psychedelic and the developing progressive rock . [ 2 ]
Roots rock is "a style of rock music that draws material from various American musical traditions including country, blues, and folk." [ 1 ] The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to encompass other genres of Americana , including early rock and roll , country rock , and other related forms.
Pages in category "Roots rock music groups" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Mojo Nixon, the roots rock renegade who crawled from the American underground with his 1987 single "Elvis Is Everywhere" and maintained a career on the fringes of American culture, died after a ...
The Grass Roots is an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. The band was originally the creation of Lou Adler and songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri . In their career, they achieved two gold albums and two gold singles , and charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100 a total of 21 times.
"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 song and the black popular music of the Northern ghettos, blues and black pop influenced jazz, and ...
A dozen of the top up-and-coming roots, rock and Americana acts will be in Memphis this week to perform as part of the Grind City Music Festival, on the grounds of Grind City Brewing Co. Opened in ...
Roots rock is the term now used to describe a move away from what some saw as the excesses of the psychedelic scene, to a more basic form of rock and roll that incorporated its original influences, particularly blues, country and folk music, leading to the creation of country rock and Southern rock. [139]