:rolleyes:  Ok, this is your first fallacious statement. Blues comes from Country music. White Country musicians used to play Blues songs all the time, but the Blues was just a particular type of a Country song, not a separate genre. When the Blacks were released from slavery they latched on to the White man's Country music and Hillbilly music. In the old days the music promoters took White Country music and started promoting it and marketing it as Hillbilly music. They took Black Country music and started promoting it and marketing it as Race music, in the beginning Country was Blues and Blues was Country, there really was no clear distinction, Blues was just a certain style of Country music. As time went on they decided the terms Hillbilly music and Race music were too offensive, so Hillbilly music just became known as Country, and Race music became known as Blues. Do you understand a little bit better now where the Blues comes from? I intend this to be an enlightening experience for you my friend. Oh and all of those little so called field hollers and work songs were inspired by White gospel music, White Christian church hymns in the first place.  You're just pulling this crap right off from the wikipedia aren't you? Wikipedia is a horrible source for things like this. Just any Tom, Dick and Harry can edit those pages to their little heart's content(and they do). And the wikipedia is a notoriously liberal site, I bet I can guess the ethnic persuasion of the owners of that site....Starts with a J lol......So anyhow...... Blue notes are not African, Blue notes have been used in British/Irish folk music for hundreds of years, and they were brought to America, particularly Appalachia and the South, Country singers and Folk singers used so called Blue Notes there is nothing African about so called Blue Notes. Call and response? Nothing African about this either, they even used so called Call and Response in Classical music. Bluegrass was not influenced by Blues in the least, people had been playing Bluegrass since before Blues music had ever came into existence, go listen to some Celtic music, you will hear Bluegrass, the Scots Irish settlers brought it with them to Appalachia, of course. Any fool knows this.   I assume this Black song you mention is Hound Dog right? Hound Dog was not a Black song Hound Dog was first performed by a biiig fat old Black hag named Big Mama Thornton, but it was NOT her song, she was just the first to perform it. The song was written by the JEWISH songwriting duo of Leiber and Stoller, so technically it was a Jew song if anything, but it's a good song so I don't mind. Many many different singers have recorded versions of Hound Dog and Hound Dog is not a Black song and never has been it is a rock standard, do you know what that means? And Elvis didn't just simply cover the song, he remade it, Elvis's version of Hound Dog sounds nothing like that fat Black hag's version of that old Rock standard. Nobody liked Big Mama's version, they liked Elvis Presley's version.  It was not. Just because Elvis sometimes hung out on Beale St. in Memphis and listened to Black Blues players does not mean he got his musical schooling in a Black neighborhood. Stop copying and pasting crap from the niggapedia. Please, stop it. It's annoying because now I'm obligated to respond.  What if they were? Since when did Elvis Presley invent Rock N' Roll anyways? He wasn't the first Rock n' Roll musician or anything, you do realize this yeah? Yes, Elvis would sometimes hang out on Beale St. in his hometown of Memphis and listen to Black Blues players, so what is your point?  This is some Afro centric morons opinion. When I hear Elvis I hear Country and Hillbilly music not Black Blues nothing Black sounding about him at all. Elvis's number one inspiration and influence was Country music, Hillbilly music, I could give you references about these things but I'm not in the mood at the moment, I don't have time.     I'll be sure to not check that out. Probably full of slanderous lies I would imagine.Who cares about this guy? What is the point of including a blind lemon jefferson biography on here? What is this proving , yeah he was a Black Blues player, wow this is amazing. Yes of course they would, they did didn't they? It was loud, rowdy and sexually suggestive, of course those bible thumping Leave It to Beaver types would not have been too fond of this new wild music.   Somebody who wrote this on some random website says Rock N' Roll came from Black R&amp;B music(it didn't) so what? What do I care about some morons OPINION. Rock N' Roll comes from Country music more than anything, Hillbilly music. The first Rock song in my opinion, and many other's opinion, is Move It On Over by Hank Williams from 1947.  [b] Once again, some random moron's opinion that Rock N' Roll somehow comes from Black R&B music which is completely untrue. Rock N' Roll comes from Country and Hillbilly music. The first Rock song was Move It On Over by Hank Williams in 1947 but the term Rock N' Roll music wasn't around then, just go listen to it it is Rock N' Roll. The first recognized Rock N' Roll single was Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets in 1954, if you listen to Move It On Over and then Rock Around the Clock, you can see that they sound more than just a little bit similar, the rhythm is nearly identical. No Black influence there, sorry pal. Please do stop copying and pasting BS from random websites and trying to pass it off as somehow being undeniable truth and evidence that Black people single handedly created a genre of music like Rock N' Roll, it obligates me to respond and this is very annoying.