Racy Race Records: Roots Music

Before there was Rock and Roll there was Jazz and Blues. Prior to the mid-1950s records were often as segregated as the schools in the south.

There were records know as race record with musicians that later became know as rhythm and blues musicians. They play Black Music for Black Folks, sometimes really raunchy music.

And man some of those blues guitar pickers were enough to inspire some kids who managed to find these records to pick up guitars and seek out that particular crossroad that Robert Johnson went down to.

Thanks to the folks that collected and preserved these race records, those young kids who learned how to play this music, the sound folks who re-engineered the records and put them on CDs and thanks to You Tube it is possible for folks to hear music that was obscure even when it was recorded.