KINGS & QUEENS OF RHYTHM & BLUES (10 CDS)

RAY CHARLES - SAM COOKE - CLYDE McPHATTER - LLOYD PRICE - RUTHBROWN SOLOMON BURKE - LAVERN BAKER – BEN E. KING – BIG JOETURNER „Rhythm and blues used to be called race music”, said Ray Charles. “This musicwas going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.“ Hidden in plain sight,banned on radio stations due to racial segregation, but still available on records andplayed in bars, clubs and juke joints throughout the “chitlin’ circuit”, the music thrivedthroughout the African-American communities from the early 1920s until the end ofthe 1940s. Due to changing attitudes towards racism, which may or may not havehad something to with the enthusiastic way African-American music from Jazz toBlues was welcomed in Europe after WWII, white audiences in the US caught on toblack music and race records were rebranded as “rhythm and blues.” This 10 CDbox presents 20 original albums of nine of the greatest stars of Rhythm & Blues from1956 to 1962. Queens of the genre like Ruth Brown and