I have spent a bit of time listening and sharing fifties and early sixties rock/rock-a-billy/folk/folk-rock music. I have discovered why my son rejects rock music outright and only listens to early forties to mid seventies jazz and nothing else.
He does not understand how it began.
I have begun to educate him about the time line and the way rock came about and how it combined several forms of classical, jazz, folk, blues and country music into a conglomeration.
So far, his "new favorites" are Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, early Elvis, and most especially, Buddy Holly.
I have made him a disc for overnight, including the Chiffons, Del Shannon and quite a few other mid to late sixties artists.
