MUS 217: Ch. 11 - Country and Jazz-Styled Rock

What did Duke Ellington refer to when he said, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."?

jazz style

Singer/keyboard player Al Kooper liked the idea of combining rock and jazz instruments and styles and, in 1968, formed his own jazz-rock band called:

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Identify the southern musical styles that Charlie Daniels incorporated in his song "The South's Gonna Do It (Again)." (More than one option may be correct.)

Honky-tonk The blues Hillbilly Boogie-woogie

What is the significance of Charlie Daniels's song "The South's Gonna Do It (Again)?"

It exemplified the southern pride of the entire southern-rock movement.

What is the significance of the song "Freebird" on Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (1973)?

It was written and recorded to honor the late Duane Allman

Which of the following albums was recorded by Bob Dylan and exhibited a fairly standard country and folk-rock instrumentation—strummed acoustic guitars, electric lead guitars, electric bass, honky-tonk piano, and drums, with the occasional use of pedal-steel guitar, which added more country flavor?

Nashville Skyline

Which of the following bands became one of the most important and successful country-rock bands to come out of southern California in the seventies?

The Eagles

How were the Eagles different from most previous country-rock groups?

The Eagles played a more complete fusion of country and rock musical styles.

.38 Special

Their singer was Donnie Van Zant, the brother of Ronnie and Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and in true Allman Brothers fashion, they had two lead guitarists and two drummers.

bands that performed small-jazz styles

They centered on the practice of improvisation, even in most of their performances of the blues.

large swing bands

They played from written arrangements, and most of their music was predetermined by an arranger who established a band's style.

Holly Hatchet

They played highly amplified, guitar-heavy music. With a sound almost closer to heavy metal than to country, they remained popular as a touring band through the late seventies and into the eighties.

Creedence Clearwater Revival broke up in 1972, but John Fogerty began to experiment with overdubbing techniques and made a number of recordings on which he played all the parts, but he used the Blue Ridge Rangers name for his recordings of:

Traditional country songs.

In the two-thousands, country-rock musician John Fogerty used his music and tours to:

back political causes

The Texas-based band ZZ Top's hit single "Tush" (1975) followed the twelve bar blues form and had Blank______ during the instrumental sections.

bottleneck guitar solos

Charlie Daniels continued to record and tour during the eighties and nineties, often using his music to express his opinions about subjects like:

bringing drug dealers to justice and America's treatment of Vietnam veterans

In 1968, Gram Parsons joined the Byrds, a folk-rock group from Los Angeles, and convinced them to do a country album with the goal of:

combining country music with rock

Charlie Daniels tended toward political statements in his songs from time to time, and his views were often rather:

conservative

Many of Bill Haley's rock recordings were western swing-styled blues covers, and his western swing style combined:

country music and jazz

Once the combination of country and rock music was popularized by rock musicians:

country musicians themselves began to use rock rhythms and instrumentation

In northern California, Creedence Clearwater Revival, led by brothers John and Tom Fogerty, took rock music and flavored it with Blank______ to create their own brand of country rock.

country or rockabilly guitar fills and country-influenced lyrics

Bob Dylan's albums Nashville Skyline (1969) and John Wesley Harding (1968), Gram Parsons and the International Submarine Band's album Safe at Home (1967), the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968), and the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969) helped forge the style known as:

country rock

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" as a retort to Neil Young's songs "Alabama" and "Southern Man," in which Young (a Canadian) had dared to:

depict southern stereotypes

Charlie Daniels, who played hillbilly fiddle, electric guitar, and slide guitar, was a(n):

eclectic country musician

After Gram Parsons quit the Burrito Brothers in 1970, he was joined by singer Emmylou Harris on his solo albums, GP (1972) and Grievous Angel (1973). The exposure Harris gained helped her:

establish a career in country and country-rock music

Country rock was a classification in which performers necessarily remained throughout their careers.

false

Which rock music style that got started in the late sixties combined the horn section sound of swing dance music with a rock rhythm section and rock beat?

jazz rock

When rock styles such as soul and funk used horn sections of brass instruments or saxophones, they automatically created a link with:

jazz-style big bands

Rock solos tend to be Blank______ than jazz ones.

less rhythmically complex

Molly Hatchet and .38 Special were two southern bands from Jacksonville, Florida, that followed the Blank______ sound of the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

multiple lead guitar

Jazz arrangements, no matter how carefully notated, cannot be effective without the infusion of Blank______ that jazz musicians bring to a performance.

musical instincts

When country musicians such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis performed the blues, they sped up the tempos, changed lyrics, and added country-style instrumental sections, causing the blues to become:

rockability

In the song "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat and Tears, as is generally true of big-band jazz:

some solo instruments are given time to improvise

Many southerners have typically considered their region to be almost separate from the rest of the United States, and one expression of that philosophy came through:

southern rock

______ was generally an aggressive music played by southern musicians who projected a very macho, stubbornly independent, outlaw image.

southern rock

Creedence Clearwater Revival still managed to capture the energy of rockabilly without the Blank______ of country music.

stand-up bass and acoustic rhythm guitar sound

Unlike improvised jazz solos, improvised rock solos tend to:

stay within a single scale or mode

Unlike jazz guitarists, rock guitarists tend to:

stay within notes of a particular finger pattern

Although the personnel of Blood, Sweat and Tears changed often through their career, they always maintained a Blank______ sound.

strongly brass-oriented

In Blood, Sweat and Tears' song "Spinning Wheel" recorded with David Clayton-Thomas, some of the rhythmic complexities of well-arranged jazz-band music are represented, particularly in the way Blank______ are used.

tempo and metric shifts

In their music and on their stages during concerts, Texan-based band ZZ Top frequently used images of:

the Southwest

In places, the lyrics to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" boo Alabama's governor George Wallace, who had blocked the entrance to the University of Alabama in 1963 to keep Blank______ from entering.

the first two African American students

The Allman Brothers Band's two lead guitarists, Duane Allman and Richard "Dickey" Betts, as well as the two drummers, Jaimoe Johanny Johanson (John Lee Johnson) and Butch Trucks, gave the group a distinctive sound as the two lead guitars created a sound that was Blank______ compared to the usual single lead guitar in most rock.

thick and full

In the Allman Brothers Band's song "Trouble No More," the two lead guitars used a technique often employed in jazz when two musicians improvised together called Blank______, meaning that the soloists alternate, each playing two-bar phrases.

trading twos

Lynyrd Skynyrd was from Jacksonville, Florida, which played hard rock music with the Allman Brothers Band's characteristic Blank______ sound.

twin lead guitar

Many groups in the South, including the Charlie Daniels Band, imitated the Blank______ of the Allman Brothers Band.

twin lead guitar and twin drum sound

One of the defining features of jazz rock was that it almost always used Blank______, an element more essential to rock than to jazz.

vocals