FRANKTOWN, Va. — Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup helped invent rock 'n' roll.
His 1946 song "That's All Right," an easygoing shrug to a lover, would become the first single Elvis Presley ever released. Rod Stewart would sing it on a chart-topping album. Led Zeppelin would play it live.
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