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THE LIVING, BREATHING ART OF HISTORY: AND BRANCHES COURTESY OF WWW.THESESSIONS.ORG

COUNTRY: THE ROOTS: The //// & His Playboys BRANCHES: Men: ////Charlie Pride/ (see also Rock n’ Roll) WOMEN: //June Carter// INFLUENCED: , Zac Brown TRIBUTARY: BLUEGRASS : /Ralph & Carter Stanley/Ricky Scaggs/Allison Krauss TRIBUTARY: : (“Sweetheart Of The Rodeo”)/Poco/early /Graham Parsons/

THE : THE ROOTS (Men): (Delta) Johnson / /Charlie Patton/ John Hurt/WC Handy/Lonnie Johnson () /Howlin’ Wolf/ //Otis // - (Detroit) - (Mississippi) BB King/ - (Texas) BRANCHES: Stevie Vaughn//Led Zepplin/ The Fabulous Thunderbirds/Cream//early /Allman Brothers/Santana/ Blues Band MODERN: /Joe Bonamassa/ /Keb Mo TRIBUTARY- TRANCE BLUES-Oxford MS -Black Possum Records—RL Burnside, ( are their disciples)

THE BLUES: THE ROOTS (Women): // (see also “”) (influenced Led Zepplin) BRANCHES (including ) : / Dinah Washington////Paul Butterfield Blues Band/Michael Bloomfield TODAY: / & //Keb Mo

GOSPEL: THE ROOTS: /Thomas A. Dorsey/James // Stirrers ()/Swan Silvertones/Dixie Hummingbirds/Blind Boys of Mississippi BRANCHES & INFLUENCES: / (started in her father’s church in Detroit)/ Staple Singers-/ The Winans Family/Blind Boys of Alabama (legendary, still working)//-R&B crossover

JAZZ: THE ROOTS: //Joe “King” Oliver/ ///// BRANCHES: //, , , ,, , , , & (-influenced) /Dizzie Gillespie (Afro-Cuban)/Lester Young// TRIBUTARY: The Sound: The Marsalis Family ()/ /Rebirth Brass Band/Harry Connick Jr./Dr. John (Mac Rebennack)////Preservation Hall Jazz Band VOCALISTS: Billie Holiday///Peggy Lee/Joe Williams//// (see also “blues”)

FUNK: THE ROOTS: /Parliament-Funkadelic & P-Funk BRANCHES: Tower of Power/Sly & The Family Stone/Ohio Players//Chaka Kahn// TRIBUTARY: ”GoGo”(Washington DC): & The Soul Searchers INFLUENCED: Herbie Hancock/ (funk rock)/Living Colour/The Roots

RAP: THE ROOTS: the poetry of Gil Scott Heron/ Sugarhill Gang/ and The Furious Five BRANCHES: /Eric B. & /Run- D.M.C/LL Cool J//KRS- One//// & Soul Sonic Force TRIBUTARIES: , Gangsta, Contemporary R&B, New Jack TODAY: //

HIP HOP (a sub-genre of RAP, and intertwined with it): THE ROOTS: DJ Kool Herc (Bronx, Summer, 1973, crossed Kingston and sound system culture with thriving American funk music. “Emceeing" in Hip Hop lead to the rise of spoken Rap Music, with its founders Kurtis Blow and , among others) THE BRANCHES: , Mary J. Blige, MC Hammer, P.Diddy/Puff Daddy, The (), The Roots, Blondie (“Rapture”, 1981), MC Lyte, (from The Sequence), Arthur Baker, DJ Wiz and The Rock Steady Crew (Puerto Rican roots), A Tribe Called Quest, Tone Loc (“Wild Thing,” the best-selling single of 1989), Salt-n-Pepa, Monie Love, Li’l Kim, Missy Elliot, Nicki Minaj TRIBUTARY: (1990s): N.W.A, Public Enemy

SINGER/: BIG DADDIES: / THE ROOTS: ///// (Beach Boys) BRANCHES: (Jim Morrison)/The Byrds//Simon & Garfunkel//Crosby, Stills & Nash///Eagles/ / / (Creedence Clearwater)/Bill Withers///Steely Dan/Lovin’ Spoonful//The Mamas and the Papas/// TRIBUTARY: The Texas Sound: //Guy Clark

THE : (completely influenced at first by American soul and R&B) THE ROOTS: // Kinks /Animals / / BRANCHES: Jimi Hendrix/Queen/ Bowie/Mott The Hoople/Free/Bad Company/Small Faces (Faces)//Jeff /Traffic () ///Van Morrison INFLUENCED: Fashion

CLASSIC R&B: THE ROOTS: // /LaVern Baker/’s / (“Hound Dog”)///The “5” Royales BRANCHES: Bobby “Blue” Bland/Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers/The Young Rascals/Delaney & Bonnie/The Righteous Brothers/ (Ben E. King) “MODERN R&B”: Mary J. Blige/The Roots ()/ TRIBUTARY: DOO WOP: ROOTS: Mills Brothers/Ink Spots CLASSICS: Dion//Orioles/Five Satins/Platters/Flamingos TRIBUTARY: THE GIRL GROUP SOUND: Shirelles/Chiffons/Ronettes/

ROCK N’ ROLL & : THE ROOTS: ///// /The Everly Brothers/// /Ritchie Valens////Fats Domino/Sister Rosetta Tharpe BRANCHES: Bruce Springsteen//Creedence Clearwater/R.E.M./U- 2/ZZ Top// & The Heartbreakers

SOUL MUSIC: BIG DADDY: Ray Charles THE ROOTS: Sam Cooke (see also “Gospel”)/Aretha Franklin/Ike & //////Al Green (the Memphis and Muscle Shoals sounds)/Booker T & The MGs/Sam & Dave/ BRANCHES: / The O’Jays (The Philly Sound) / /Earth, Wind & Fire//Bettye Lavette TRIBUTARY: THE SOUND: / ()/Supremes/Temptations//Martha & The Vandellas INFLUENCED: /Duffy//Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings/Kendrick LaMar

DISCO & MUSIC: THE ROOTS: Van McCoy//Gloria Gaynor/ Sound Machine ()/KC & The Sunshine Band/Chic/ /ABBA BRANCHES: /Sharon Jones & The Dapp Kings INFLUENCED: Culture and fashion

“” :(merges rock, spoken word and modern dance/movement): THE ROOTS: Yoko Ono, The , B-52s Branches (Modern): : THE ROOTS: The Wailers (Bob & , ) Toots & The Maytals/Lee “” Perry/ BRANCHES: The Marley Family (Ziggy)//Eric Clapton (mid- period)/UB40// The Specials

“JAM”: THE ROOTS: The /Southern Rock: Lynyrd Skynyryd /Allman Brothers BRANCHES: Widespread Panic / Warren Haynes / Derek Trucks)/ Robert Randolph & The Family Band/Phish/Moe//SoulLive/Umphrey's McGee

ROOTS OF RHYTHM: BIG DADDIES: Gene Krupa///Baby Dodds BRANCHES: THE GREAT STUDIO CATS: Panama Frances// ///Al Jackson Jr. CLASSICS: /John Bonham (Led Zepplin)/BJ Wilson ()/Bobby Elliot ()/Liberty DeVitto()// (Rascals)/ (Reggae)/Chad Smith (Chili Peppers)

PUNK: THE ROOTS: Velvet Underground//Sex Pistols/ Dolls/Clash// BRANCHES: Pretenders/Talking Heads/Blondie///The Stooges

METAL/HARD ROCK: BIG DADDIES: The Jimi Hendrix Experience/ THE ROOTS: //Ozzy Osborne & // BRANCHES: Kiss/Guns & Roses/ AC/DC

GRUNGE: THE ROOTS: Nirvana//Meat Puppets BRANCHES: INFLUENCES: Culture and fashion

AFROBEAT AND WORLD MUSIC: THE ROOTS: BRANCHES: Worldwide…. Explore and be inspired!

CONNECTION AND CROSSOVER ..some suggestions..find your own! Black Keys-Trance Blues of Oxford MS

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash –true friends & partners

The Byrds & The Scene of the early (ties to Eagles, Poco, Flying Burrito Bros.)

Reggae: British artists influenced, incl. Eric Clapton

Hendrix: Blues/Funk fusion influenced many, incl. Miles Davis (and his lesser-known wife, Betty Davis)

Delta and —leading to a boom in both British and American artists like 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Led Zepplin, Eric Clapton, Keb Mo

Ray Charles & Sam Cooke: Gospel to R&B

SOME NAMES THAT STAND OUT FOR THEIR UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION : These artists sparked a revolution. They either re-invented the genre they were in, or actually invented a genre of their own! Bob Dylan Louis Armstrong James Brown Ray Charles Hank Williams Bill Monroe Elvis Presley Jimi Hendrix Dizzie Gillespie Nirvana Frank Zappa Elmore James Bo Diddley The Beatles & Bessie Smith Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five & The SugarHill Gang Mahalia Jackson and Thomas A. Dorsey