Big Dismal Interview
Published by kim on Thu, 2004-04-01 00:00Interview with Chuck Shea, Guitarist
March 13, 2004
Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
cMW: If you win the Rock Album of the year Dove Award, what would you say?
In an attempt to broaden my musical knowledge this past year, I took a course titled "Music in Popular Culture." My professor (who looked like Santa Claus but wasn't nearly as jolly) explained to us the logic that Sun Records employed in allowing Elvis to sign with another label: it wasn't the singer himself that was selling records, but the new style in which he sung (the marriage of country and R&B we know as rock and roll).