[quote=ColonelHogan;6045460][quote=-The Patriot-;6044080][quote=Four Eyes;6038321][quote=-The Patriot-;6038154][quote=Four Eyes;6036834][quote=-The Patriot-;6036620]       Maybellene was not a slight rework of Ida Red.   umm...yeah, Maybellene is a rock n' roll version of Ida Red with altered lyrics.    It was influenced by it and used a completely different chord progression.    Sounds pretty darn similar to me.    And the only reason he was called a hillbilly was because people thought he had a white sounding voice.   And just a White sound in general. Yeah, and some people thought Elvis had a Black sounding voice. Berry was initially marketed in the Hillbilly aka White category because the record industry thought he was just too good to put in the Race category because they wouldn't make as much money. So they didn't put his picture on his records and marketed him to Whites in the Hillbilly category to make more money. No one could tell that he was Black because his music sounded like Hillbilly music. Everyone thought he was White, that is until they showed up to see him in concert :rofl What's that ni##er doin' on stage? Where's the real Chuck Berry?:eek::rofl It was actually Blacks who started calling him the Black Hillbilly because he would play concerts with a fully Black audience and play alot of Country/Hillbilly songs.    His guitar playing was blues influenced. The only rock n roll guitarists who used hillbilly guitar techniques were Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup. They were just playing black music with black techniques. Although Cliff Gallup was influenced by jazz a lot more than hillbilly   .oh blah blah blah, same o' shi#! :D Chuck Berry was called the Black Hillbilly because he played Hillbilly music and his biggest influences were Country/Hillbillly/Bluegrass musicians. He had every Bill Monroe song memorized. That's why they even marketed him to a White audience in the Hillbilly aka White category instead of usual Race music, and everyone assumed he was White by his sound. But whatever you think is true, my friend.