Introduction

In his 1970 book, The Sound of the City, Charlie Gillitt also makes the first attempt at a serious typology of the music. He identifies five different styles of music that loosely got lumped together in much the same way as Country and Western or Rhythm and Blues had. We haven't yet talked about New Orleans Dance Blues; let's take a trip down the Mississippi. A history of folk music in 500 songs, a boundary, episode 8, the fat man.