 folk or blues singer, you would literally be marketed as making race music. That's correct. At least through the 1920s and 30s, that begins to change in the late 1940s when the label R&B comes around. Now, this is not to say that country music did not benefit from the labor and talent of Black musicians. In fact, one of the stories that I tell in the book is about Cecil Gant, a Black R&B, blues, pianist, singer-songwriter from Tennessee,