Various - A Rhythm & Blues Chronology 1: 1940-1941 Jad Fair With some wily plotting Fela

With some wily plotting Fela escaped charges and subsequently produced this opus mocking the police for wasting resources on hassling him instead of furthering justice in Nigeria

The Mills Brothers - Till Then 24

a gloriously sloppy sing-a-long couched with warm harmonies

Jason Isbell

Various - A Rhythm & Blues Chronology 1: 1940-1941 Jad Fair With some wily plotting FelaRhythm and Blues was not generally recognised as a distinct musical genre until the years following the end of World War II. These 4CD sets centred on 1940 1944 attempt to pinpoint records typical of the various strands of music which coalesced into what can now be seen as a historically definable form of black popular music, commonly abbreviated to R&B. Previously, the American record industry had marketed blues, jazz, jug band, hokum, sacred and