DUSTER BENNET ( II )
DUSTER BENNET con JOHN MAYALL
Anthony "Duster" Bennett (23 September 1946 – 26 March 1976) was a British blues singer and musician. Based in London, his first album Smiling Like I'm Happy saw him playing as a one-man band, playing a bass drum with his foot and blowing a harmonica on a rack while strumming a 1952 Les Paul Goldtop guitar given to him in 1968 by Peter Green. Backed by his girlfriend Stella Sutton and the original Fleetwood Mac on three tracks, the album was well received. He remained popular on the local blues club scene until his death in a car crash in 1976.
Early career
Bennett was born in Welshpool, Powys, Mid Wales. Emerging in the late 1960s from the art school music scene of Kingston-upon-Thames and Guildford, Bennett was a one-man blues band, in the style of bluesmen such as Joe Hill Louis, with virtuosity and coordination on drums, guitar and harmonica. His live sets combined his own compositions with Jimmy Reed-style blues standards often aided by friends Peter Green and Top Topham. He was a session musician in the early 1960s playing harmonica. Between 1968 and 1970 he was played on John Peel's Top Gear, toured and eventually joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers as band member/solo act on a US tour in 1970. In the 1970s he drifted off into more mainstream material.
Musical style
Bennett's music was country blues with the occasional gospel music offering, but his last album Fingertips (1975) differs from the earlier records; it was made with influences of soul, R&B and funk. Bennett recorded three albums and a string of singles for Blue Horizon. Bright Lights was recorded live at the Gin Mill Club in Godalming, Surrey. Bennett's "Jumping at Shadows" was subsequently covered by Fleetwood Mac and revived in 1992 by Gary Moore, who covered it in his After Hours album. Attempts to gain wider appeal with Mickie Most were unsuccessful. For decades, a clutch of live and home recordings on Indigo seemed to be all that remained of his work until the 2006 release of the Complete Blue Horizon Sessions.
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Death
After performing with Memphis Slim on 26 March 1976, in Burslem Stoke on Trent, Bennett was driving home in a Ford Transit van in Warwickshire when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel. The van collided with a truck and Bennett was killed.
Hay una larga tradición de bandas de un solo hombre tocando el Blues que se remonta a Daddy Stovepipe en los años 20, Jesse Fuller , Joe Hill Louis hasta el Doctor Ross en los 90. En Gran Bretaña, un joven inspirado en el British Blues Boom organizó un acto que expandió esa tradición,su voz alta y clara, su cabello corto y su buena apariencia de "chico de al lado" significaban que Duster Bennett no era típico de Artistas de blues La composición, plato fuerte de de Duster lo marcaron como una estrella que nunca tuvo la oportunidad de brillar, ya que a causa de un accidente moriría prematuramente
Anthony Bennett nació en Welshpool, Gales en 1946, y a mediados de los años 60 se mudó a Londres para estudiar. Aprovechó el rebrote de Blues en el suroeste de Londres y pronto comenzó a tocar allí como una " one man band " anunciada como Duster Bennett. Su habilidad con la armónica le sirvió para conseguir trabajos como musico de sesión, ya que el sonido Blues de The Stones y The Animals era lo que por aquellos entonces estaba de moda tanto que incluso los principales discos pop a menudo saboreaban 'Mississippi Sax'. En los clubes, Duster se acercaba mucho a Jimmy Reed, con su guitarra con la armónica en el cuello y un combo de bombo / charles. En 1967 firmó con Mike Vernon 's Blue Etiqueta de horizonte Su primer álbum, 'Smiling Like I'm Happy' contó con la ayuda de Peter Green , Mick Fleetwood y John McVie, y canciones de Jimmy McCracklin , Magic Sam y Juke Boy Bonner junto con su propio material.
En 1970, Duster recorrió Europa y Estados Unidos con John Mayall , comenzaba los shows como " one man band " añadiendo con posterioridad sus habilidades instrumentales al set principal de The Bluesbreakers. Más tarde ese año, el álbum '12 dbs 'de Duster nuevamente presentó a Peter Green y también a Top Topham, el guitarrista original de The Yardbirds que fue sucedido por Eric Clapton , Jeff Beck y Jimmy Page. Después de otro gran álbum de blues para Blue Horizon. Su " banda " de blues todavía era muy popular en los clubes, pero en 1976, después de tocar en un concierto con Memphis Slim , la camioneta de Duster colisionó fatalmente . Tan solo tenía 20 años. cuando le ocurrió el accidente que acabó con su prometedora vida.
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