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Arley Benton was born in Texarkana, Arkansas.[3]
Whilst residing in Toledo, Ohio, during the mid 1950s, and having been influenced by Sam Cooke and B.B. King, Benton began playing blues music.[1] By 1959, he was leading his own band in Chicago.[3] During the 1960s, local record labels, such as Melloway, Alteen, Sonic, and Twinight Records released several Benton singles, before in 1971 he joined Willie Dixon. [1] Indeed, a lack of opportunity in the early 1960s meant that Benton gave up playing professionally for several years, and he worked as an auto mechanic.[4] Benton’s earlier work was an amalgam of blues and soul, which he confusingly dubbed ‘disco blues’. However, according to Music journalist, Bill Dahl, “in the late 1970s, when the popularity of blues music was at low ebb, Benton’s recordings, particularly for Ronn Records, were a breath of fresh air.”[1]
Benton became a fixture in Dixon’s Blues All-Stars for some time.[1] A 1973 album by Dixon’s Blues All-Stars, featuring Benton, The All Star Blues World Of Maestro Willie Dixon and his Chicago Blues Band, was issued on Spivey.
Dixon was credited as the songwriter of Benton’s best known song, “Spider in My Stew.”[2] Released on the Shreveport-based Jewel Records label, it gave Benton a modicum of fame, and his 1974 follow-up, “Money Is the Name of the Game”, helped to cement his standing.[1] Benton’s 1978 effort for Jewel’s Ronn Records subsidiary (also titled Spider in My Stew) became recognised as one of the more engaging Chicago blues albums of its time.[1]
Whilst residing in Toledo, Ohio, during the mid 1950s, and having been influenced by Sam Cooke and B.B. King, Benton began playing blues music.[1] By 1959, he was leading his own band in Chicago.[3] During the 1960s, local record labels, such as Melloway, Alteen, Sonic, and Twinight Records released several Benton singles, before in 1971 he joined Willie Dixon. [1] Indeed, a lack of opportunity in the early 1960s meant that Benton gave up playing professionally for several years, and he worked as an auto mechanic.[4] Benton’s earlier work was an amalgam of blues and soul, which he confusingly dubbed ‘disco blues’. However, according to Music journalist, Bill Dahl, “in the late 1970s, when the popularity of blues music was at low ebb, Benton’s recordings, particularly for Ronn Records, were a breath of fresh air.”[1]
Benton became a fixture in Dixon’s Blues All-Stars for some time.[1] A 1973 album by Dixon’s Blues All-Stars, featuring Benton, The All Star Blues World Of Maestro Willie Dixon and his Chicago Blues Band, was issued on Spivey.
Dixon was credited as the songwriter of Benton’s best known song, “Spider in My Stew.”[2] Released on the Shreveport-based Jewel Records label, it gave Benton a modicum of fame, and his 1974 follow-up, “Money Is the Name of the Game”, helped to cement his standing.[1] Benton’s 1978 effort for Jewel’s Ronn Records subsidiary (also titled Spider in My Stew) became recognised as one of the more engaging Chicago blues albums of its time.[1]
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