FENTON ROBINSON
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American blues singer and guitarist, born September 23, 1935 in Minter City (near) Greenwood, Mississippi, died November 25, 1997 in Rockford, Illinois. Robinson first recorded for Meteor in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1957, recorded for Duke in Houston, Texas, in 1958-1959, and moved to Chicago in the early 1960s. Apart from his own records, he played with Rosco Gordon, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Rush and others.
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His Japanese fans reverently dubbed Fenton Robinson "the mellow blues genius" because of his ultra-smooth vocals and jazz-inflected guitar work. But beneath the obvious subtlety resides a spark of constant regeneration -- Robinson tirelessly strives to invent something fresh and vital whenever he's near a bandstand. The soft-spoken Mississippi native got his career going in Memphis, where he'd moved at age 16. First, Rosco Gordon used him on a 1956 session for Duke that produced "Keep on Doggin'." The next year, Fenton made his
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