![]() And when the British Invasion took their cues from the old cotton fields and added some blues rock guitar riffs to the arrangements, we had a music on our hands that defined the culture of our generation. ![]() Since that day when “the music died” many have gone, and if we’d ever by any chance of luck can get backstage passes to any of their Rock and Roll Paradise performances in the hereafter, dying – even the thought of it – would become a whole lot easier. When Buddy Holly perished in a 1959 airplane crash, he “officially” became the first rocker to be eligible for the Band of Legends. Some of the roots musicians that created rock and roll, such as Ike Turner, sadly never really received the recognition due. The exact date that rock came into existence is of course not recorded, as the music evolved. It became the sound track of a generation. In addition Amplification took the guitar from being just another rhythm instrument to the forefront of music making.Įarly superstar performers were blues guys like Jimmy Rodgers, Robert Johnson and Lead Belly, followed by popular rockers Bill Haley, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly who took the old songs from the cotton fields and inner cities in the US and turned them into rock and roll arrangements. It can be argued that Cyberspace and Globalization where direct results from a music culture that found a global audience. As such it became a force that drove the culture that transformed the world. ![]() Rock and Roll as a music genre did not really arrive on the scene until the late 1940s, early 1950s, along with the post World War II baby boomer generation. The listings have a link to a tribute page with data of their life and accomplishments. But then in recent years, with many of our early rock heroes in their late sixties and early seventies, the numbers are way up. Obviously in the early years of rock and roll the “death toll” among legends was low – for 1961 I couldn’t even find a listing. Those Darlins played their farewell show almost a year ago, so Wariner and Regensburg could focus on a new project together, until she received the diagnosis.On this page you will find in chronological order, starting with the first rock and roll pioneers in the 1930s and the years and dates they left us for that huge concert stage in the sky. They toured extensively behind bands like The Black Keys, redefining the way people looked at music that emanated from Nashville: namely, that it could rock just as hard as it twanged. Wariner formed Those Darlins in 2006 with Nikki Kvarnes and Kelly Anderson (who was eventually replaced with Linwood Regensburg), merging country instrumentation into an aggressive punk sound. Watch the video, where Wariner bravely shaves her head in preparation for chemotherapy, above. The LP’s last song, “Ain’t Afraid,” contained a line that, at the time, was meant to reflect co-front woman and guitarist Jessi “Zazu” Wariner’s mounting sense of unease: “there’s a tumor growing on my body,” she wrote, “and I don’t know what lays in store.” Now, the metaphorical has morphed into the actual: Wariner was diagnosed with cervical cancer seven months ago, and recently discovered that it has spread to her lymphatic system. Three years ago, seminal Nashville trio Those Darlins released their final album, Blur the Line, the bookend of a decade-long career shaping a hybrid of garage rock and ramshackle rockabilly that helped to define the city’s musical evolution.
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