Guitarist Fenton Robinson (Alligator Records), who wrote such Blues classics as As The Years Go Passng BY and Somebody Loan Me a Dime, was born in Miner City, MS on this day in 1935. Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, Robinson left his home at the age of 18 to move to Memphis, Tennessee where he recorded his first single Tennessee Woman in 1957.[2] He settled in Chicago in 1962.[2] He recorded his signature song, Somebody Loan Me a Dime, in 1967 on the Palos label, the nationwide distribution of which was aborted by a freak snow storm hitting the Windy City. Covered by Boz Scaggs in 1969, the song was misattributed, resulting in legal battles. It has since become a blues standard, being part of the repertoire of one out of every two blues artists, according to 1997s Encyclopedia of Blues.[3] Robinson re-recorded the song for the critically acclaimed album Somebody Loan Me a Dime in 1974, the first of three he would produce under the Alligator Records label.[4][5] Robinson was nominated for a Grammy Award for the second, 1977s I Hear Some Blues Downstairs.[4] In the 1970s he was arrested and imprisoned for involuntary manslaughter in connection with a car accident. Paroled after nine months, he continued playing in Chicago clubs and later taught guitar. Robinson died of complications from brain cancer,[1] in Rockford, Illinois. Robinsons signature song, Somebody Loan Me A Dime can be heard in The Blues Brothers on the radio when Jake (John Belushi) is being transported and paroled. youtu.be/S0AyK8Gy1XY
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