Rare home recording footage of Rhythm and blues, curated from across the internet. Browse 3 clips below.
Home recordings are windows into the most private moments of the creative process — demos recorded in bedrooms, four-track experiments, and early versions of songs that would later be transformed by professional studios. These clips capture the spark before the polish.
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was starting to become more popular. In the commercia...
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2:33Wilson Pickett, Brenda Lee, J.O.E., James Brown, Eddy, Stevie Wonder, Freddy Fender, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, L.A.B., Head, The Rolling Stones, Sine, The Temptations, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, Carla Thomas, Rhythm and blues, Jimmy Reed, Sam Cooke, Barbara Lynn, Jackie Wilson, Moby, soo, NME, Tina Turner, Guitar Slim, Smokey Robinson, Rolling Stones, Songwriter, Y&T
3:52Wilson Pickett, Brenda Lee, J.O.E., James Brown, Eddy, Stevie Wonder, Freddy Fender, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, L.A.B., Head, The Rolling Stones, Sine, The Temptations, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, Carla Thomas, Rhythm and blues, Jimmy Reed, Sam Cooke, Barbara Lynn, Jackie Wilson, Moby, soo, NME, Tina Turner, Guitar Slim, Smokey Robinson, Rolling Stones, Songwriter, Y&T
8:32Korn, R.E.M., Tony Chapman, The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, The Band, Charlie Watts, That Dog, Rhythm and blues, Jazz band, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Y&T