Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup was a Mississippi-born Delta bluesman whose plainspoken electric guitar and unhurried vocal phrasing produced 'That's All Right' in 1946, a record that would later become, almost by accident, the spark of rock and roll. He never saw much money from the songs that made other men famous, a source of lasting bitterness he spoke about openly before his death in 1974. His handful of recordings quietly rewired postwar popular music from the outside.

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