Reply #19: Elvis and Pat Boone were passé in the 60s [View All]

You're right in pointing out that Elvis and Pat Boone to some extent rode on the coattails of black artists that preceded them and used their sound to gain fame, especially Elvis (Boone was kind of a crooner and not very bluesy). But during the 60s, black blues artists like Albert King, BB King, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, John Lee Hooker and several others became popular in their own right and were being played on rock and roll radio stations and their albums were often selling well. They were finally getting the recognition they so richly deserved and the white kids in the rock generation were buying their records and going to their concerts, thanks to the praise and exposure they had received from artists like the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix.