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rhythm-and-blues

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  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Mars is one of the most potent examples of the current movement to restore rhythm-and-blues crooning to a prominent place within hip-hop beats.

    Liking Bruno Mars Just The Way He Is 2010

  • His breakthrough came in September 1955 at a recording session at J & M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Little Richard, backed by a solid rhythm-and-blues band, howled “Tutti Frutti,” with its unforgettable exhortation, “A wop bop a loo bop, a lop bam boom!”

    Five People Born on December 5th | myFiveBest 2009

  • "I always did like that country and rhythm-and-blues fusion," said the 69-year-old Mr. Williams, who will give a rare performance Thursday as part of the BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech, and Friday at Brooklyn's Southpaw club.

    Rapping With the Original Doggfather Steve Dollar 2011

  • Mars is one of the most potent examples of the current movement to restore rhythm-and-blues crooning to a prominent place within hip-hop beats.

    Liking Bruno Mars Just The Way He Is 2010

  • As a teen, Mr. Matus was a friend of rock-and-roll deejay Alan Freed and became an aficionado of rhythm-and-blues music.

    A Local Life: Irvin Leigh Matus, 69, penniless Shakespeare scholar who lived by his own design 2011

  • Minevich and McLellan are both classically trained, but Minevich loves jazz, gypsy, Klezmer and tango, and McLellan started out playing rock, rhythm-and-blues and jazz.

    A True Jive Pluckers preview ewillett 2009

  • Mars is one of the most potent examples of the current movement to restore rhythm-and-blues crooning to a prominent place within hip-hop beats.

    Liking Bruno Mars Just The Way He Is 2010

  • He began playing the guitar in his teens and briefly studied at the Kingston College of Art. After playing lead guitar with two minor bands, in 1963 he joined the Yardbirds, a rhythm-and-blues group in which his blues-influenced playing and commanding technique began to attract attention.

    Five People Born on March 30 | myFiveBest 2010

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