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JB

Station

Jackie Brenston

1951 to 1962 · on Rock

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Active years

192019401960198020002020

The journey

1945195019551960Rock1951
  1. 1951Rock · Rocket 88

1 platform, 0 moments and landmarks along the way. Lines the journey does not ride are dimmed, as they are on the map while a journey plays.

Platform

  1. Rock1951 to 1955

    Rocket 88

    Brenston sang and played saxophone in Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm. When the band recorded at Sam Phillips' Memphis studio in March 1951 the record went out under Brenston's name, with a guitar tone distorted by an amplifier damaged on the way to the session. It topped the rhythm and blues chart, the band broke up over the credit, and Brenston never had another hit. The map opens the Rock trunk here.

    Key album: Rocket 88, 1951

    Source: Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Little, Brown, 1994

The line

Rock (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Little, Brown, 1994
  2. Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Souvenir Press (revised edition), 1983

Cite this page

The Metro Map of Music, ‘Jackie Brenston: station’, /stations/jackie-brenston.