  Why don't we ever hear other Whites say this? All I ever hear from 'so-called' White music-historians is that Rock is a mulatto music that's more derived from its black genre components.  They are either misinformed, or are trying to be politically correct(or forced to be, we seen what happened to Dr. Watson..) and kiss some Black @$$. I don't know of any serious White music historians or rock musicians who would downplay the White country/hillbilly origins of Rock, and I do know alot of serious rock musicians and music teachers and such. My mom's cousin Johnny is a professional music teacher and he makes custom guitars for Nashville stars, he knows everything there is to know about Rock's origins, and it's hillbilly/Country music first and foremost. Black Blues(as opposed to White Country Blues which was around before the Black Blues:cool:) and R&B contributed to early Rock N' Roll but the influence was minor, I don't say this to downplay any Black involvement, I give credit where credit is due always, but Black music had very little to do with early Rock N' Roll. I think the biggest Black contribution to Rock N' Roll was the fact that some of the early Rock N' Roll stars were Black and they played their own more Black R&B influenced style of Rock N' Roll usually, like Little Richard and Fats Domino. In the case of Chuck Berry...does Johnny B. Good sound more like Black music or more hillbilly/countryish to you? It doesen't sound very African to me...Like I said about Chuck Berry, before he got into Rock he played hillbilly/Country music, they called him the Black Hillbilly...his musical inspiraton was White to begin with.