Entertainment

The initial combination of R&B, country and folk songs that gave birth to rock and or roll during the fifties is extended in the canon of garage songs the soon followed. The visceral yowling of some troubled man (or women) runs through each of these musics as do topics like love, loss, hate, violence and drunkenness. It’s all basically a distillation of American culture. We can love someone, get drunk, hate ‘em, get into a fight and start all over again a week later with someone new. That’s also the progression of American music: get drunk and try something new. And even if there’s a failure in the works, being blind drunk helps a bit.