Ongoing History Daily: Did the Scots invent rock’n’roll?

By Alan Cross Corus Radio

Posted May 4, 2023 9:00 am

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Ongoing History Daily: Did the Scots invent rock’n’roll? - image — Corus Radio

So here’s a question: who invented rock’n’roll music? Was it Elvis? Was it Bill Haley and the Comets? Was it any number of R&B performers from the American South in the late 40s? Or was it….the Scots?

In 2006, a Scottish website called Scotland Now published a theory that modern rock music was shaped by Scotsmen who settled in the New World in the 1700s. They say that the quarter-million Scottish folk took their folk songs with them and over the years, these songs mutated and evolved into what we would call rock’n’roll.