The Rolling Stones: Influences

The Rolling Stones: Influences

Before becoming rock's most enduring outlaws, The Rolling Stones were teenagers with an abiding passion for American music. The grit and swing of their signature sound came from a fusion of raw bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters with house party shouters like Rufus Thomas, to which they added sex and volume. Here's where The Stones got their swagger.

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