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Great American Music: Passing the Torch
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By Mark Brown Special to MSN Music You know it when you hear it. As roots rocker Dave Alvin wrote,...
The OriginalsElvis Presley: "In the end, a big voice and a huge melody has got to win the day," said...
Chuck Berry: Face it, if Chuck Berry had been white, we all might be saying "Elvis who?" these days....
The Beach Boys: For some, it took Brian Wilson finally finishing 1967's "Smile" in 2004 to...
Bob Dylan: Had he been nothing but a one-note Woody Guthrie wannabe his influence still would have...
Parliament/Funkadelic: Best known for their '70s funk, George Clinton's bands started off in Jersey...
Grateful Dead: The jokes are easy, but the influence is undeniable. Besides being skilled musicians...
Public Enemy: With Flava Flav saying yes to every reality show, woman and substance thrust in his...
The Band: Sure, they're mostly Canadian, but they showed the U.S. how to do its music up right....
The Eagles: Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and a host of others might have started the wave of...
John Fogerty: While San Francisco was obsessed with psychedelic sounds in the '60s, Fogerty was...
Aretha Franklin: It wasn't an accident that she sang at Barack Obama's inaugural, and it wasn't an...
James Brown: Mug shots, crazy hair and an untimely death mar what should be a legacy as one of the...
Patti Smith: Her fierce onstage performances tend to hide the gentle but ardent peace activist she...
The Standard Bearers Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Springsteen arguably broke little...
Rage Against the Machine: A band that might have seemed excessively aggrieved during their heyday in...
R.E.M.: America's version of The Smiths, hailing a new revolution with Peter Buck's often-jangly...
Wilco: The Chicago band was one of the first big bands to say "screw it" to major record labels,...
Drive By Truckers: Another Athens band, the Truckers have gone from cult heroes to superb...
Phish: The Vermont band's return to the road this year was rapturously greeted by fans (and mourned...
Kings of Leon: Descendents of The Band in both look and feel, the three brawling Followill brothers...
Tom Petty: Gainesville, Fla., in the '70s was America's own Liverpool, says writer Bill Flannigan....
Michael Jackson: The sudden (but sadly, not shocking) death of an icon reminded the world that...
Dave Matthews Band: Detractors just want to see a Virginia jam band made good. That's not the case....
Los Lobos: After the breakthrough of "La Bamba," the world was waiting for Los Lobos to blow up....
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