As a concept, alternative R&B is older than its reputation. It emerged in the late ‘90s as a subset of a style the writer Gail Mitchell referred to as “real R&B” in a Billboard story from 2000 — music ...
At the year’s end the R&B-smitten Jopling wrote two articles for Record Mirror, each headed 1963: Rhythm And Blues Made The News. He explained the impetus for writing the pieces, which appeared in ...