Almost as forgotten as Hersal Thomas, Goree Carter was a Fifth Ward guitarist who was credited by late New York Times pop critic Robert Palmer with being the creator of the very first rock and roll ...

Seems we could do better for a man who may have invented rock ‘n’ roll. A pause for eyes to stop rolling. Carter’s gravestone says he was born Dec. 31, 1931, a year after his birth certificate, which ...

Let’s get this out of the way at the top: seeking to identify “the very first rock and roll record” is a fool’s errand, one which writer Nick Tosches likened to trying to “discern where blue becomes ...