I always hate it when Blacks try to claim rock n' roll too. Country Western, Bluegrass,Folk and Celtic music and even White gospel contributed much much more to the formation of Rock N' Roll. Just go listen to some of the old country-western, folk music, bluegrass, and Celtic music, hillbilly music the stuff White southerners had been playing forever. Then listen to some of the earliest rock songs, it can sound surprisingly similar. Blues had an effect on Rock, but not nearly as much as White musical styles did.    Besides, would there have ever been blues without White people?? No. Blacks would never have been introduced to the guitar without Whites, they would never even have been brought to America. The early Blues was little more than old Black slaves trying to immitate the country and folk music they heard the Whites playing. Rock N' Roll is a White musical genre no matter what any misinformed liberal or Black moron would like to think. Jazz is not an entirely black invention either. The White piano players in the old saloons and such used to play some downright jazzy songs on piano long before the term jazz was ever coined by the blacks, if they were even the ones who coined the term in the first place. Blacks, jews, and anti White liberals just love to claim that virtually every single American originated form of music has Black African roots, but the truth is, Celtic inspired music and rhythms, and classical music, had more of an effect on American music than African music and rhythms ever did. Just another Black invention myth to make the Blacks feel more important.