LC control no. | n 84163012 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Robinson, Fenton |
Associated country | Chicago (Ill.) |
Located | Memphis (Tenn.) Springfield (Ill.) Rockford (Ill.) Chicago (Ill.) |
Birth date | 19350723 |
Death date | 19971125 |
Place of birth | Greenwood (Miss.) |
Place of death | Rockford (Ill.) |
Field of activity | Blues (Music) |
Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Singers Guitarists Composers Music teachers |
Found in | His Nightflight [SR] p1984: label (Fenton Robinson, vocals and guitar) Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 1997 (Fenton Robinson; blues guitarist, singer; d. Nov. 25, 1997 at age 62; b. in LeFlore County, Miss.) Wikipedia, November 3, 2014 (Fenton Robinson; born September 23, 1935, Greenwood, Mississippi; died November 25, 1997, Rockford, Illinois; American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar; moved to Memphis at age 18 and settled in Chicago in 1962; signature song, Somebody loan me a dime, recorded 1967 on the Palos label (re-recorded on Alligator in 1974)) Alligator Records WWW site, November 3, 2014 (Fenton Robinson; born September 23, 1935, Greenwood, Mississippi; died November 25, 1997; blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist; in the late 1980s moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked with the local school system; lived in Rockford, Illinois, during the last years of his life) |