  Can you explain to us why all American musical forms where created in the south? Why wasn't jazz, blues,and eventually rock and roll created in the north? The expanation is obvious there where blacks in the north. All American music forms are thanks to blacks. period.  I remember watching this documentary where radio jockeys broke rock and roll record on television. Claiming that black music was a bad influence on white youths... Name one early white rock and roll band that did not cover black song in the initial stages- none!   2 words for ya: Scots-Irish, Appalachia.       Yes, I thank the Blacks for giving us American Folk Music, Country-Western, fiddle music, and Bluegrass especially:rolleyes: Face it, the Blacks heard Whites playing country and folk music, bluegrass style music and fiddle music, and this influenced them to start playing the blues. In the beginning blues was just Black folk/country music. But overtime it evolved into it's own unique BLACK style, yes. Blues and it's offspring R&B had an influence on early Rock music, but not nearly as much as White styles did. So Black Blues/R&B had a minimal influence on rock, but White country and folk and bluegrass styled music inspired the Blues in the first place, it's an even trade off, actually no it's an uneven trade off, Whites had much more influence on the formation of Rock N' Roll. There would have been absolutely no Rock without Whites, no Blues, no Jazz, you can't deny that:cool: Celtic and Classical are still the mother and father of all American spawned music when you break it all down son. I doubt you could find one single serious jazz player who wouldn't acknowledge the fact that Classical is the father of Jazz. And Country-Western and WHITE Folk music are the parents of the black blues.    The blues and jazz are the mulatto bastard children of White musical styles.