The Birth of Rock and Roll

by Joe Bonomo

In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early days--when "a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show," as Linderman writes in his introduction. "A church with fifty congregants was a full house. The annual square dance at the town hall, a rent party, a fish-fry, the honky-tonk piano in the whore house, the union meeting ... There...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981734286
• ISBN13: 9780981734286
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Dust to Digital
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.0" x 12.2"