  roots rock is rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music.p. auslander, liveness: performance in a mediatized culture (london: routledge, 2008), p. 83. it is particularly associated with the creation of hybrid subgenres from the later 1960s including country rock and southern rock, which have been seen as responses to the perceived excesses of dominant psychedelic and developing progressive rock.v. bogdanov, c. woodstra and s. t. erlewine, all music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul (backbeat books, 3rd edn., 2002), p. 1327. because roots music (americana) is often used to mean folk and world musical forms, roots rock is sometimes used in a broad sense to describe any rock music that incorporates elements of this music.r. shuker, popular music: the key concepts (london: routledge, 2005), p. 235. in the 1980s roots rock enjoyed a revival in response to trends in punk rock, new wave and heavy metal music. ==history== thumb|upright|alt=dylan with his guitar onstage, laughing and looking downwards.|bob dylan in 1966, as many rock artists moved towards expansive and experimental psychedelia, bob dylan spearheaded the back-to-basics roots revival when he went to nashville to record the album blonde on blonde, using notable local musicians like charlie mccoy. this, and the subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, john wesley harding (1967) and nashville skyline (1969), have been seen as creating the genre of country folk, a route pursued by a number of, largely acoustic, folk musicians.k. wolff, o. duane, country music: the rough guide (rough guides, 2000), p. 392. other acts that followed the back to basics trend in different ways were the canadian group the band and the california-based creedence clearwater revival, both of which mixed basic rock and roll with folk, country and blues, to be amo
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