One the other hand if this guy and band turned up and played this in a set list I think I'd expect the
father of the bride to give em a bonus.
More rhythm & blues I think, although this song and that style are mutually exclusive. Gilbert O'Sullivan did not need southern negros to progress from banjos to electric guitar for him to furnish the world with his style of music in the early 1970s.
https://youtu.be/fh1rWzaPoDs?si=l-8xXJdvJUu0TdsN
(composition trumps all)
Rhythm and blues
Genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s
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 piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists Continued in Wikipedia
Stylistic origins Jazz, blues, spirituals, gospel, boogie-woogie, jump blues, swing
Cultural origins Deep South, United States
Typical instruments Double bass, drum kit, electric guitar, electric organ, horns, piano, saxophone
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