Wynonie Harris hollered the blues like he meant every ribald word of it, a jump-blues shouter whose fifteen Top 10 R&B hits between 1946 and 1952 made him one of the loudest, brashest voices pointing toward rock and roll. His 1948 cover of 'Good Rockin' Tonight' out-charted the song's own composer, Roy Brown, who had idolized him. He died in 1969, a foundational figure whose swagger outlived his own commercial peak.

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All She Wants to Do Is RockWynonie Harris