Biographie
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Date de naissance
23 Septembre 1935
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Lieu de naissance
Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, États-Unis
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Décédé(e) le
25 Novembre 1997 (à 62 ans)
Fenton Robinson (23 September 1935, Greenwood, Mississippi — 25 November 1997, Rockford, Illinois) was a blues singer and exponent of the Chicago Blues guitar.
His signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" was covered by Boz Scaggs, but attributed to Scaggs himself, resulting in legal battles. The nationwide distribution of Robinson's own version of the song was aborted by a freak snow storm hitting Chicago. The song has since become a blues standard, according to 1997's Encyclopedia of Blues being "part of the repertoire of one out of every two blues artists.
Robinson re-recorded the song, which was originally recorded in 1967 for the Palos label, for the critically acclaimed album Somebody Loan Me a Dime in 1974, the first of three he would produce under the Alligator Records label. For the second, 1977's I Hear Some Blues Downstairs, Robinson was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In the 1970s he was arrested and imprisoned for vehicular manslaughter. Paroled after nine months, he continued playing in Chicago clubs, and later taught guitar.
He died of complications from brain cancer.
References
# ^ Herzhaft, Gérard; Harris Herzhaft, Paul Harris, Brigitte Debord, Jerry Haussler, Anton J. Mikofsky (1997). Encyclopedia of the Blues
. University of Arkansas Press. p. 278. ISBN 1557284520. http://books.google.com/books?id=sOKZKESWys0C&pg=PA278&dq=%22Somebody+Loan+Me+a+Dime%22+Robinson&client=firefox-a
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# ^ a b Tomko, Gene (2006). "Robinson, Fenton"
. in Edward M. Komara. Encyclopedia of the Blues: A - J. Routledge. p. 835. ISBN 0415926998.
# ^ Cochran, Robert (2005). Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas
. University of Arkansas Press. p. 58. ISBN 1557287937. http://books.google.com/books?id=TRFe-4vC76AC&pg=PA58&dq=%22Somebody+Loan+Me+a+Dime%22+Robinson&lr=&client=firefox-a
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