Jimmy Rock music emerged during the mid-1950s to become the major popular musical form of young audiences in the United States and Western Europe. Its stylistic scope is too broad to be encompassed by any single definition; the only feature common to all rock music is a heavy emphasis on the beat. Rock 'n' Roll, 1950-62 The primary source of rock 'n' roll was rhythm and blues, an idiom popular among black audiences that …showed first 75 words of 450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 450 total…since his death. A prime example of a "new" collection is the MCA disc Blues, a retrospective collection of blues-infused tunes recorded throughout his brief career. While Blues is another in a long train of Hendrix releases, it comprises largely unheard performances that point to how heavily Hendrix leaned on blues fundamentals when he was a mega rock star wowing capacity crowds with his fiery guitar assaults. Today, Hendrix's albums continue to be best sellers.