History of Rock and Roll Chapter 11
Improvised jazz solos
They place equal emphasis on silence and the playing of notes. They place equal emphasis on silence and the playing of notes.
Charlie Daniels tended toward political statements in his songs from time to time, and his views were often rather _____.
conservative
Although the personnel of Blood, Sweat and Tears changed often through their career, they always maintained a _____ sound.
strongly brass-oriented
True or false: Country rock was a classification in which performers necessarily remained throughout their careers.
false
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
In places, the lyrics to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" boo Alabama's governor George Wallace, who in 1963 had blocked the entrance to the University of Alabama to keep _____ from entering.
the first two African American students
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 _____, meaning that the soloists alternate, each playing two-bar phrases.
trading twos
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
Early rock music by Bill Haley and the Comets was influenced by both _____.
Early rock music by Bill Haley and the Comets was influenced by both _____.
Identify the southern musical styles that Charlie Daniels incorporated in his song "The South's Gonna Do It (Again)." (Check all that apply.)
Hillbilly Boogie-woogie The blues Honky-tonk
Identify the southern musical styles that Charlie Daniels incorporated in his song "The South's Gonna Do It (Again)." (Check all that apply.)
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 were the characteristics of the music created in 1968 by the Flying Burrito Brothers, formed by Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman? (Check all that apply.)
It had a strong rock backbeat. It had Everly Brothers-influenced vocal harmonies. It included the country timbre of pedal-steel guitar.
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 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
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 movement began in 1968 when the Allman Brothers Band started playing music that combined elements of blues, soul, and country?
Southern Rock movement
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
.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.
Improvised rock solos
They are often very fast, flashy, and continuous. They are often very fast, flashy, and continuous.
Molly 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. 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.
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 _____ 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
Once the combination of country and rock music was popularized by rock musicians, _____.
country musicians themselves began to use rock rhythms and instrumentation
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
Jazz instruments such as the saxophone were used to play jazz-style improvisations in the bands that backed _____ by many African American artists, from Little Richard in the fifties through the many soul, Motown, and funk musicians of the sixties and later.
early rock performances
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
What did Duke Ellington refer to when he said, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."?
jazz style
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
Molly Hatchet and .38 Special were two southern bands from Jacksonville, Florida, that followed the _____ 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 _____ 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 _____.
rockabilly
_____ was generally an aggressive music played by southern musicians who projected a very macho, stubbornly independent, outlaw image.
southern
Creedence Clearwater Revival still managed to capture the energy of rockabilly without the _____ 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
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 _____ 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
The lines played by the lead guitarists in the Allman Brothers Band were not typical country lines, but were closer to the long, expressive guitar lines common in _____.
the blues tradition
Lynyrd Skynyrd was from Jacksonville, Florida, and they played hard rock music with the Allman Brothers Band's characteristic _____ sound.
twin lead guitar
Many groups in the South, including the Charlie Daniels Band, imitated the _____ 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 _____, an element more essential to rock than to jazz.
vocals