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RE: beck the elder (was "here is...")
British bands definately brought black (and white) american roots music
to the throbbing suburban teenybopper masses-but Elvis and Carl Perkins
and
Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry,and Link Wray did it first,and inspired the
English cats. People like Fahey and Harry Smith and the Seeger family and
the whole folk revival of the 50s and early 60s is part of why US blues
records were even getting to England.I grew up in D.C. and heard people
like
Ray Charles, BB King, Bo Diddly ,Louis Jordan etc on the radio before
the
Beatles came to the US.