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Rock'n'Roll America: behind the music that changed everything. S01e01.

Another winner from the BBC4 music doc machine shows the real roots of the genre that bestrode the world for decades

A new three-part doc Rock'n'Roll America plots how this image of hot rods and pompadours conquered the world under Eisenhower and refused to go home. Forged on the well-worn BBC Music docs anvil, archive footage of jitterbugging delinquents saying "Cool, daddy!" illuminates bronchial testimony from desiccated old session bassists with one anecdote, while moody narration from David Morrissey reminds us we're not actually in Milwaukee.
The various cradles of the genre - Beale Street, Bourbon Street, Sun Studios - are these days tourist quarters, which makes it easy for film-makers. I kept expecting see Reginald D Hunter making his recent BBC journey Songs Of The South, which visited many of the same hallowed juke joints and honky-tonks. This does mean, though, that we get to meet flamboyant septuagenarian New Orleans tour guide Deacon John Moore, who takes us into fabled venue the Dew Drop Inn dressed in blazer, dicky bow and possibly spats. "This is where many a tear had to fall," he emotes, gazing at a disused room. "The stage would've been right around here."

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