It’s all about the roots of rockin’ and rollin’….including those songs that lyrically broached the subject as early as the 1920s. We follow the thread into the 1930s and 40s where a wellspring of American music, both traditional as well as experimental, inspired the sounds that would fuse into the sound that we know of as rock ‘n roll. Tonight at 9, Deeper Roots take a trip down a very wide path in an episode called “Early Rocking”…venturing into early blues, country swing, jazz, and R&B.  We’ll hear from Blind Blake, Jack McVea, Stick McGhee, Hardrock Gunter, Les Paul, and others that may raise an eyebrow or two. Muddy Waters once stated that “The blues had a baby and they called it rock ‘n roll…” but there is so much more to it than just the blues…and we’ll find out what.