History
The roots of hard rock as well as heavy metal can be traced back to antecedents in the 1950s. In the early 1950s, electric blues musicians began experimenting with hard rock elements, including driving rhythms, distorted guitar solos, and power chords. This was most evident in the work of Memphis blues guitarists such as Joe Hill Louis, Willie Johnson, and particularly Pat Hare, who captured a "grittier, nastier, more ferocious electric guitar sound" on records such as James Cotton's "Cotton Crop Blues" (1954). Another important antecedent is Link Wray's instrumental hit "Rumble" in 1958. Also the instrumentals of Dick Dale such as "Let's Go Trippin'" released in 1961.
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