Fenton Robinson

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Somebody Loan Me a Dime 03:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 03:58 Tools
Texas Flood 04:23 Tools
The Getaway 03:22 Tools
Going to Chicago 02:35 Tools
Checking On My Woman 03:27 Tools
Country Girl 04:57 Tools
Directly From My Heart to You 04:22 Tools
You Say You're Leaving 03:19 Tools
I've Changed 04:27 Tools
I Hear Some Blues Downstairs 00:00 Tools
Gotta Wake Up 04:30 Tools
As The Years Go Passing By 04:49 Tools
Say You're Leavin' 00:00 Tools
The Sky Is Crying 00:00 Tools
West Side Baby 05:04 Tools
Killing Floor 00:00 Tools
Laundry Man 03:10 Tools
Just a Little Bit 00:00 Tools
Mellow Fellow 00:00 Tools
Going West 00:00 Tools
Crazy, Crazy Lovin' 02:26 Tools
I Found Out Yesterday 05:45 Tools
Tell Me What's the Reason 00:00 Tools
I Wish for You 00:00 Tools
Stormy Monday 00:00 Tools
I'm So Tired 00:00 Tools
Give You Some Air 00:00 Tools
Little Red Rooster 00:00 Tools
Slow Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Little Turch 03:51 Tools
Somebody Loan Me A Dime (Live) 00:00 Tools
I'm Not Through Loving You 00:00 Tools
Sideman 00:00 Tools
Schoolboy 03:02 Tools
I Lost My True Love 04:55 Tools
From My Heart 00:00 Tools
Sinner's Prayer 04:48 Tools
The Feeling Is Gone 02:35 Tools
She's a Wiggler 00:00 Tools
Don't Start Me Talking 00:00 Tools
Can't Hold Out Much Longer 04:09 Tools
Nightflight 03:56 Tools
Moanin' For My Baby 00:00 Tools
Smokestack Lightning 00:00 Tools
Let Me Come on Home 00:00 Tools
Don't Start Me To Talkin' 00:00 Tools
Nothing But a Fool 00:00 Tools
I Wanna , Ooh 00:00 Tools
Too Many Drivers 00:00 Tools
J'm So Tired 00:00 Tools
7-11 Blues 00:00 Tools
Smoke Stack Lightnin' 00:00 Tools
Let Me Come Back Home 00:00 Tools
I Fell In Love One Time 00:00 Tools
Leave You in the Arms (Of Your Other Man) 00:00 Tools
Special Road 00:00 Tools
Leave You in the Arms of Another Man 00:00 Tools
Moaning for My Baby 00:00 Tools
Somebody PleaseLoan Me A Dime 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Love Is Just a Gamble 00:00 Tools
As The Years Go Passing By [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
I Hear Some Blues Downstairs [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
Blue Monday 00:00 Tools
Find a Way 00:00 Tools
I Believe 00:00 Tools
Mississippi Steamboat 00:00 Tools
Only Lovin' Man (James Harman) 00:00 Tools
Laughing And Crying Blues 00:00 Tools
Crying the Blues 00:00 Tools
Slick and Greasy 00:00 Tools
The Sky Is Crying - Original 00:00 Tools
Money Problem 00:00 Tools
R.M. Blues 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loan Me A Dime - Original 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Woman 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loand Me A Dime 00:00 Tools
As The Years Go By 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Ooh! 00:00 Tools
Somebody Lone Me A Dime 00:00 Tools
I Just Want A Little Bit 00:00 Tools
Night Riding Daddy (James Harman) 00:00 Tools
I'm Not Through Lovin' You 00:00 Tools
The Get Away 00:00 Tools
Little Red Rooster - Original 00:00 Tools
You're Cracking Me UP 00:00 Tools
Mellow Fellow - Original 00:00 Tools
Leave You In The Arms Of Your Other Man - Original 00:00 Tools
I Feel So Bad 00:00 Tools
Blue Monday Blues 00:00 Tools
Somebody Please Loan Me a Dime 00:00 Tools
Three Way Party (James Harman) 00:00 Tools
There Goes My Baby 00:00 Tools
Cryin' The Blues 00:00 Tools
Smokestack Lightning - Original 00:00 Tools
Somebody Lend Me a Dime 00:00 Tools
Crazy Crazy Loving 00:00 Tools
As The Years Go Passing By - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Crazy By Degrees (James Harman) 00:00 Tools
I Put My Baby In High Society 00:00 Tools
Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Original 00:00 Tools
Let Me Come On Back Home - Original 00:00 Tools
As the years go passing b 00:00 Tools
I've Canged 00:00 Tools
My Little Girl 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Ooh 00:00 Tools
Stormy Monday - Original 00:00 Tools
Farmer's Son 00:00 Tools
One Room Country Shack 00:00 Tools
Cheking On My Woman 00:00 Tools
Let Me Rock You To Sleep 00:00 Tools
Someone Loan Me A Dime 00:00 Tools
Little Turch - Original 00:00 Tools
The Getaway - Original 00:00 Tools
Going To Cicago 00:00 Tools
Directly From My Heart 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loan Me A Dime - Fenton Robinson 00:00 Tools
Moanin' For My Baby - Original 00:00 Tools
So Long 00:00 Tools
Crying out Loud 00:00 Tools
Give You Some Air - Original 00:00 Tools
I Fell In Love One Time - Original 00:00 Tools
Sideman - Original 00:00 Tools
Canґt Hold Out Much Longer 00:00 Tools
Nothing Buy A Fool 00:00 Tools
Gonna Leave You in the Arms of Another Man 00:00 Tools
Night Flight 00:00 Tools
I'm Not Through Lovin' You - Original 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Oh! - Original 00:00 Tools
Say Your Leaving 00:00 Tools
You Dont Know What Love Is 00:00 Tools
Keep On Groovin' Me Baby 00:00 Tools
I Put My Baby In High Society (original 45 version) 00:00 Tools
Sinnerґs Prayer 00:00 Tools
Somebody [loan me a dime] 00:00 Tools
Crazy, Crazy Loving 00:00 Tools
She's A Wiggler - Original 00:00 Tools
Nothin' But A Fool 00:00 Tools
Leave You In The Arms Of Your Other Man 00:00 Tools
Someday Loan me a dime 00:00 Tools
Laughing and Crying Blues - Original 00:00 Tools
I Hear Some Blues Downstairs - F Robinson 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Oh! 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love 00:00 Tools
Fenton Robinson, Somebody Loan Me A Dime 00:00 Tools
Say you´re leavin´ 00:00 Tools
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Fenton Robinson (born Fenton Lee Robinson on 23 September 1935; died 25 November 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar. He recorded his signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime", in 1967. The song was used in the film The Blues Brothers, being heard playing on the radio when Jake (John Belushi) is being transported and paroled. A cover version was recorded by Boz Scaggs in 1969. 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 had 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 own debut as a leader for the Bihari Brothers' Meteor label with his first reading of "Tennessee Woman." His band, the Dukes, included mentor Charles McGowan on guitar. T-Bone Walker and B.B. King were Robinson's idols. 1957 also saw Fenton team up with bassist Larry Davis at the Flamingo Club in Little Rock. Bobby Bland caught the pair there and recommended them to his boss, Duke Records prexy Don Robey. Both men made waxings for Duke in 1958, Robinson playing on Davis' classic "Texas Flood" and making his own statement with "Mississippi Steamboat." Robinson cut the original version of the often-covered Peppermint Harris-penned slow blues "As the Years Go Passing By" for Duke in 1959 with New Orleans prodigy James Booker on piano. The same date also produced a terrific "Tennessee Woman" and a marvelous blues ballad, "You've Got to Pass This Way Again." Fenton moved to Chicago in 1962, playing Southside clubs with Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Otis Rush and laying down the swinging "Say You're Leavin'" for USA in 1966. But it was his stunning slow blues "Somebody (Loan Me a Dime)" cut in 1967 for Palos, that insured his blues immortality. Boz Scaggs liked it so much that he covered it for his 1969 debut LP. Unfortunately, he initially also claimed he wrote the tune; much litigation followed. John Richbourg's Sound Stage 7/Seventy 7 labels, it's safe to say, didn't really have a clue as to what Fenton Robinson's music was all about. The guitarist's 1970 Nashville waxings for the firm were mostly horrific: he wasn't even invited to play his own guitar on the majority of the horribly unsubtle rock-slanted sides. His musical mindset was growing steadily jazzier by then, not rockier. Robinson fared a great deal better at his next substantial stop: Chicago's Alligator Records. His 1974 album Somebody Loan Me a Dime remains the absolute benchmark of his career, spotlighting his rich, satisfying vocals and free-spirited, understated guitar work in front of a rock-solid horn-driven band. By comparison, 1977's I Hear Some Blues Downstairs was a trifle disappointing despite its playful title track and a driving T-Bone tribute, "Tell Me What's the Reason." Alligator issued Nightflight, another challenging set, in 1984, then backed off the guitarist. His 1989 disc Special Road, first came out on the Dutch Black Magic logo and was reissued by Evidence Music. Robinson passed away on November 25, 1997 at the age of 62 due to complications from brain cancer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.