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Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog Era Blues Rare 1952 Club Recording Willie Mae Thornton R&B Legend — DeepCutsArchive
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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 commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a pi...

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