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Smokestack Lightnin' Home Page -- The Blues Profile Page
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As a young boy age 12, he was mentored by the 1928 Victor /Brunswick/Vocalion Recording Artist, The Reverend Robert "Tim" Wilkins. Wilkins major claim to fame was the tune "That's No Way To Get along," which was appropriated by the Rolling Stones in 1966 and released as "Prodigal Son" on the best selling album Beggar's Banquet. "Nevertheless, I'm happy to report that , no, Memphis Gold did not tell me that he sold his soul to the devil down at the "crossroads" of highway 49 and 61 in order the he play like the guitar wizard that he is," say's Larry Benicewicz of the Music Monthly/Maryland Musician. "He is the genuine article, perhaps a throwback to the blues men of yore who learned their licks at the knee of legendary patriarch like Charlie Patton. And having done so, serves as one of the last links to the days when cotton was king on the Mississippi Delta."
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