Who invented rock and roll?

a white guy with a time machine

More on Goree Carter, mentioned upthread

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/who-invented-rock-and-roll?fullpage=1

According to Brenston’s bandleader, Ike Turner, “Rocket 88” inspired producer Sam Phillips to seek out white musicians who could sound like black ones, and then one day, wham! Elvis!

A prominent scholarly dissident to this line of thinking was the late blues and rock historian Robert Palmer. In his 1995 book Rock and Roll: An Unruly History, Palmer made the case for another candidate for this pop-culture holy grail: “Rock Awhile,” a 1949 song recorded by an all-but-forgotten teenager from Houston named Goree Carter. Citing its unmistakable resemblance to Chuck Berry’s later work, its lyrical instruction to “rock awhile,” and the way the guitar crackled through an overdriven amp, Palmer argued that Carter’s song was a strong contender for the oldest known specimen of the music that soon after took over the world.

And yet even in Houston, few people remember Carter. There is no historical marker memorializing the house where he lived almost his entire life or the Montrose studio where the song was cut. There is no Goree Carter Day, nor any Goree Carter Avenue. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has not seen fit to honor the man. His name is absent from virtually all standard histories of modern popular music. It’s as if he never lived, never thrilled audiences with his behind-the-back guitar playing, never invented rock and roll.

Pete Johnson and Joe Turner invented rock and roll in 1938 with "Roll em Pete". Try and find a song earlier that rocks like that one.

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Pete Johnson and Joe Turner invented rock and roll in 1938 with "Roll em Pete". Try and find a song earlier that rocks like that one.
This one, from 1929. Sounds like rock and roll to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wquFkHOhIL4

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