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In the '70s, blues rock (a modern white version of the blues) transformed itself into heavy metal , typified by Led Zeppelin . Singer/songwriters like James Taylor recorded easy-listening confessionals, and country-rockers like the Eagles institutionalized The Byrds' country experiments (and adumbrated the slick contemporary country sound of Nashville stars like Garth Brooks ). Funk ( James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone, Funkedelic) made soul wilder and looser, and disco combined the celebration of Eros and dancing with beats derived from funk, Latin music, and German experimentalists like Kraftwerk.
Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean are the singers and songwriters of Freakwater, whose recent album, Old Paint (Thrill Jockey), is "alternative" by process of elimination, not by design.
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.
The WSJ "California" page reports that the state legislature is likely to pass a bill the would prevent writers, filmmakers, and songwriters from making unauthorized use of the images of dead people.
In the '60s, some boosters said that folk-rock had taken pop away from late '50s commercial songwriters ( Carole King , Neil Diamond, Phil Spector, Neil Sedaka, et al.)
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