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Get those baby blues right down the throats of the people watching in the grand jury.
Rhythm 'n' blues (the music of the black South) and other manifestations of the black "sound," like urban doo-wop, came to the attention of whites--like the record mogul Ahmet Ertegun in Washington, the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (who wrote "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City") in Los Angeles, DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, and Elvis Presley in Memphis, who was totally immersed in black music almost by accident.
(Its power as an organic whole is no accident: Miles Ahead was recorded in bits and pieces, and "The Meaning of the Blues" was the only full, unspliced ensemble performance on the album.)
And that Little Richard didn't shop that song to labels because he wanted to be "a straight blues singer" and " 'Tutti Frutti' was too queer"?
Musicians return to folk and blues roots, and reject studio techniques with a low-fi movement (Guided by Voices) that treasures spontaneity and tape hiss.