Rhythm and Blues Music affects public opinion, from fashion to
culture. Music helps define who we are. But defining music and
its genres is a very subjective process and can be manipulated
into a very complicated explanation of what defines what. Who
are we to say that one specific music genre is more important
than another? That goes to a particular person's opinion of the
music - what they like. But no one can deny that we certainly
have been blessed in the last fifty plus years as music has
evolved. From the Big Band sounds of the forties that was
everyone's vice to the historic changes in music history in the
fifties, music has become much more a social and sociological
event. Another way that music has evolved is the way that we
obtain our favorite music. Some may be able to remember
gathering around an old radio to hear their favorite music, some
may even remember the old Victrola machines that would capture
their favorite recording artist via a 78 rpm record. Some may
recall going to a show and having