While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.
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Related You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern. KEITH RICHARDS My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry an... DRAKE BELL I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. BRETT FAVRE Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk musi... MAGGIE PETERSON It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do... WILLIE NELSON My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry. JERRY LEE LEWIS Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he wa... JERRY LEIBER The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - ... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits, ... Mystery Train. GREIL MARCUS We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech... WALTER BECKER Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken through a cold country where mist pa... AUDRE LORDE I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ... JOHN OATES I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&... KEHLANI Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music whe... JOHN MELLENCAMP My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ... ALVIN LEE I was a little country hick boy. LEO ATKINSON I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ... GARY WRIGHT There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather out... MAC DAVIS Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson.... AUSTIN MAHONE Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ... ALEX WINSTON I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... BRYSON TILLER In addition to my (counseling) practice, I've had a lengthy career in music. Years ago, I sang count... LINDA PALERMO R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t... BABYFACE Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't... D. B. SWEENEY Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews. CHUCK BERRY It's a testament to an immigrant who was welcomed by the state of New Jersey and by this country. I ... KRIS KOLLURI Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w... PERCY SLEDGE People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi... ELVIS PRESLEY I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show w... ANDY GRIFFITH Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian ... AHMET DAVUTOGLU Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe... MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam... LAURA BELL BUNDY When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all... DWAYNE JOHNSON It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing... MARCUS BELGRAVE Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country m... KACEY MUSGRAVES I've always been a fan of Johnny Cash. I grew up in the country picking cotton. ... All we had was a... GARY LOPEZ I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and f... GRETCHEN WILSON My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot... MARTINA MCBRIDE Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. ... DOLLY PARTON A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every bla... JACKIE WILSON The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck ... ERNIE ISLEY I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [The] hardest working man in country music, ... given everything an artist can give to country music... GARTH BROOKS I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i... TRACY CHAPMAN When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football ... BOBBY FISCHER One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here,... CALLIE KHOURI As much as the R&B people, and the gospel people, and spiritual music, and the country-western peopl... LARRY KANE R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who becam... GEORGE BENSON The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a... CHUCK BERRY I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American... TEDDY THOMPSON I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,... NAYVADIUS CASH It's devastating. That's the birthplace of the music of this country. That includes all the genres o... MARCUS BELGRAVE I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. GAVIN DEGRAW The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c... FORREST KLINE This was kind of a mirror image of the other game. BOB MARQUARDT I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Will... DONNY OSMOND Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a countr... RICK DANKO I'm just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and... WILL ROGERS None of us are classically trained. We're country people who enjoy country music. MIKE BAILEY When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a... ATO ESSANDOH Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the... ELVIS MITCHELL But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER He was one of the greatest parts of the past in country music in this country that anybody will ever... CARROLL BAKER I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia. JASON ALDEAN I was born and raised in the Northeast, and country music oftentimes is attached to a stereotype, an... PETE FISHER Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well. TANYA TUCKER I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan... ED SPELEERS My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry. MICKY DOLENZ I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like ... BOB NEWHART While most kids had Pam Anderson posters on their walls, Nick had Pam Anderson and airplanes. It was... KURT KOEPPEN Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music wer... LORETTA LYNN When Sirius asked me if I wanted to program a channel committed solely to Elvis, it was a no-brainer... SCOTT LINDY Slavery was something people in the country thought they needed. America was more an agricultural co... BARBARA JEAN WASHINGTON One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was... FRANKIE VALLI The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, yo... TOM WOPAT We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings t... JAMES YOUNG I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charl... DARIUS RUCKER I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men do... ANDREA BOCELLI Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus... JOE COCKER Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family w... WONG KAR-WAI Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country... CHARLIE DANIELS For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this cou... TONI MORRISON For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country... RUDYARD KIPLING I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut... MIKE VOGEL If there had been 50 people in the country who did not know where Fairfax was, they do now. ALAN MERTEN ....and I think that was the suspicion right through the country, that there was a deal been done. ALEX FERGUSON I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly. CHRIS CORNELL I've always loved gospel, ... My mom was involved in church music. I sang a lot in church. It's an o... JACK HALL We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up... MICK RALPHS I'm a country girl who was accidentally born in the city. GAIL KAUTZ Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par... JOHN LEGEND Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it... DIERKS BENTLEY My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... LUKE BRYAN I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country! JONATHAN GROFF Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play... SAM HUNT I am a country boy at heart. DAVID CAMERON
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