They called it rhythm & blues

"Robillard's guitar work is excellent all through They Called It Rhythm & Blues, his salute to 1950s jump-blues and the other strains of R&B that drove his band Roomful of Blues in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Rhode Islander may be a nostalgist, but he cuts through the sentimental mists of time with a creative clarity that reinvigorates lost artifacts by Roy Milton, Joe Liggins, ZuZu Bollin, Mickey & Sylvia and others".