• Roots rock is a genre of rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. It is seen as responses to the perceived excesses...
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  • Roots Rock Riot is the second album from Welsh rock band Skindred. It was released on 23 October 2007 in the United States. The album was produced by...
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  • artists, and roots reggae artists became popular with punk rock fans. When Jamaicans turned to dancehall, a lot of black, white and mixed roots reggae bands...
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  • Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and country music. Rock also drew strongly...
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  • No Cry" and "Roots, Rock, Reggae" Tyrone Downie – keyboards with: I Threes – backing vocals Tommy McCook – saxophone on "Roots, Rock, Reggae" Donald...
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  • Heartland rock is a genre of rock music characterized by a straightforward, often roots musical style, often with a focus on blue-collar workers, and...
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    back-to-basics "roots rock", the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff laden heavy rock. In the early 1960s, one of the most popular forms of rock and...
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    The Roots are an American hip hop band formed in 1987 by singer Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia,...
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    Heart, was released on July 10, 2015. The album is more roots rock than her earlier blues rock.[citation needed] Fish wrote five songs on the record. She...
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  • country, folk, rhythm and blues, and rock influences Folk music Rasin, Haitian roots music Roots reggae Roots revival, a trend which includes young performers...
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    neotraditional country, and country rock. Mark Deming of AllMusic referred to the Turnpike Troubadours as a "country-leaning roots rock band," with elements of political...
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    Quest and The Roots, Rock played a major role in the merging of elements from jazz into hip hop music (also known as jazz rap). Pete Rock is also the older...
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    Francisco. In the 1960s, rock musician Lonnie Mack blended black and white roots-music genres within the framework of rock, beginning with the hit song...
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  • News and Classical network, and the adult album alternative formatted Roots, Rock, and Jazz network. Prairie Public produces and broadcasts Main Street...
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  • rock, Southern rock, progressive country, outlaw country, neotraditional country, Texas country, Red Dirt, roots rock, indie folk, folk rock, rockabilly...
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  • Roots rock is "a style of rock music that draws material from various American musical traditions including country, blues, and folk." The term is sometimes...
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    Cowpunk (redirect from Country punk rock)
    in this scene subsequently became associated with alternative country, roots rock or Americana. The term "cowpunk" is first attested in 1979, as a blend...
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  • 1966, as many rock artists moved increasingly towards expansive and experimental psychedelia, Bob Dylan spearheaded the back-to-basics roots revival when...
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    The Revivalists are an American rock band formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2007. The eight-piece band consists of Ed Williams (pedal steel guitar,...
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    Williams. 2023 – Awarded Best Roots Rock / Americana Artist, and Best Roots Rock / Americana Album (for Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart) in OffBeat's Best...
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    The Grass Roots is an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. The band was originally the creation of Lou Adler and songwriting...
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    The John Butler Trio were an Australian roots-rock band led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler, an APRA and ARIA-award-winning musician. They formed...
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    Dire Straits (category Roots rock music groups)
    rock of J. J. Cale, and jazz. Their stripped-down sound contrasted with punk rock and demonstrated a roots rock influence that emerged from pub rock....
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    Skindred (category Rock music groups from Newport, Wales)
    for the album. On 23 October 2007, Skindred released its second album, Roots Rock Riot on Bieler Bros. Records. In the United States, the album peaked at...
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    back-to-basics "roots rock", the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff laden heavy rock. In the early 1960s, one of the most popular forms of rock and...
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    George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. They were a roots rock band and described as "perhaps the biggest supergroup of all time". Originating...
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    BoDeans (category Rock music groups from Wisconsin)
    rock band formed in Waukesha, Wisconsin who came to prominence in the 1980s. The band's sound encompasses multiple rock genres, including roots rock,...
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  • Pub rock is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom. A back-to-basics movement, which incorporated roots rock...
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