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To facilitate the classroom conversation, if necessary, ask the class the following questions:

When the groups have finished, go around the class to let each group share their reflections.

If necessary, allow them to see the Chuck Berry clip one more time in order to formulate their answers.

Play the clip of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys performing “Ida Red.” As they’re watching and listening, give each group the handout with excerpted lyrics for both “Ida Red” and “Maybellene.” Then have the students in each group take ten minutes to formulate an argument regarding what it was that Chuck Berry took from “Ida Red” when writing “Maybellene,” lyrically, musically, and otherwise.

Following the above discussion, have students break into small groups of four or so.

Common Core: Students will either take a position on the music review (CCSS Writing 1) or write a short story (CCSS Writing 3) or explain the role and influence of musical artists (CCSS Writing 2 CCSS Writing 10).Common Core: Students will closely read a text (a music review) to identify and evaluate the claims made by the reviewer (CCSS Reading 8 CCSS Speaking and Listening 2).Compare and contrast texts, arguments and ideas.Write creatively for personal and/or small group expression.Draw connections among various print, audio and visual texts.Extrapolate arguments about music by assessing sound, mood, tone, instrumentation.The influence of Country music on both white and black performers of the Rock and Roll era.The way Chuck Berry borrowed from a Country song to write the early Rock and Roll hit “Maybellene”.The manner in which Country music influenced Rock and Roll from the beginning.Upon completion of this lesson, students will: And, finally, students will have a chance to write their own responses to this question: why did early Country matter to musicians in both the black and white communities? Taking Ray Charles’ album Modern Sounds in Country Music as a kind of case study, students will consider just what an artist associated with R&B did with a song that came straight out of Country. Among African-American artists, the influence of Country was also strong. And Hank Williams is regularly cited as one of Rock and Roll’s founding fathers, by the likes of Keith Richards and Bruce Springsteen. Bob Dylan, years after Nashville Skyline, would bring together a group of artists for a Jimmie Rodgers tribute album. In the years following his Rock and Roll career, Lewis would even change his direction and pursue what became a wildly successful Country career. Jerry Lee Lewis, when citing his three greatest influences, put Jimmie Rodgers, the so-called “Father of Country Music” at the top of the list. Taking Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” as an example drawn from early Rock and Roll, students will have the chance to see and hear Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys perform “Ida Red,” the song Berry said provided source material for “Maybellene.” In addition, students will watch two clips of Johnny Cash performing, engaging in a discussion of why it was that Bob Dylan might have felt a kinship with Cash, enough so that he asked Cash to record a duet of “Girl from the North Country,” the track that would open Dylan’s Nashville Skyline.Įlvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis: all grew up with Country. This lesson looks to some of the early cross-pollination between Country and Rock and Roll. However, what the above acts did, in this particular historical passage, was to give Country a new emphasis.

When it comes to Rock, Country had, simply put, been there all the while. So, in some respects, the merger of Country and Rock shouldn’t have surprised anyone when, in the late 60s and 70s, Bob Dylan released Nashville Skyline, the Byrds released Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the Flying Burrito Brothers formed, bands such as the Eagles came together, and the term “Country Rock” was put into circulation. One could go so far as to say that without Country, there would be no Rock and Roll, Soul Music would be different in character, and the Rolling Stones would be a another band altogether.

Long before there was a thing called Country Rock, Rock and Roll was deeply entwined with Country music.