Rock Music Timeline

(Ongoing Project)

1910

John Lomax: Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

1912

Hart Wand: “Dallas Blues”

1914

Jerome Kern: “They Didn’t Believe Me”

W. C. Handy: “St. Louis Blues”

1916

Cecil Sharp: One Hundred English Folksongs

1928

Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel”

1929

Jimmie Rodgers: “Any Old Time”

Jimmie Rodgers: “Standin’ on the Corner”

1930

Jimmie Rodgers: “My Blue-Eyed Jane”

1940

Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Ballads

1958

James Brown: Please Please Please

1962

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan

James Brown: Live at the Apollo

1963

Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

Sandy Bull: Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo

1964

Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin’

The Holy Modal Rounders: 1

1965

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

The Who: My Generation

Robbie Basho: The Seal of the Blue Lotus

1966

The Monks: Black Monk Time

Love: Love

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

The Mothers: Freak Out!

Tim Buckley: Tim Buckley

Jefferson Airplane: Takes Off

The 13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds

Love: Da Capo

The Who: A Quick One

Robbie Basho: The Grail & the Lotus

1967

The Doors: The Doors

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow

The Velvet Underground: & Nico

Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced

The Red Crayola: The Parable of Arable Land

Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Mothers: Absolutely Free

Kaleidoscope: Side Trips

Pearls Before Swine: One Nation Underground

Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk

The Doors: Strange Days

Nico: Chelsea Girl

Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter’s

The Who: The Who Sell Out

Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen

The Holy Modal Rounders: Indian War Whoop

Robbie Basho: The Falconer’s Arm

Tim Buckley: Goodbye and Hello

1968

The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat

The Mothers: We’re Only in it for the Money

The United States of America: The United States of America

Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets

The Deviants: Ptooff!

Family: Music in a Doll’s House

Captain Beefheart: Strictly Personal

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland

Neil Young: Neil Young

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

Nico: Marble Index

Pearls Before Swine: Balaklava

1969

MC5: Kick Out the Jams

The Band: The Band

David Peel: Have a Marijuana

Tim Buckley: Happy Sad

The Who: Tommy

The Stooges: The Stooges

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King

Grateful Dead: Live/Dead

Colosseum: Valentyne Suite

Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers

Amon Düül II: Phallus Dei

Robbie Basho: Venus in Cancer

Technical Space Composer’s Crew: Canaxis 5