Talk:Bennie Smith

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[edit] First Post!

After meeting Bennie and hearing his history, I did a bunch of searching on the internet and found a number of pages with information on him. These are pretty reputable sites and so am pretty confident on the information there. The web's not all bad, after all Wikipedia is here: quod erat demonstratum.

Sites to look at:

Moved to reference section of the article.

Since the significance of an artist often revolves around who his contemporaries are, here is a top 25 album list from the time the last album he recorded on came out (which happened to be his own).

Top Records in May 2001 for KNON 89.3 FM, Dallas Texas, 55,000 watts stereo
Top 25 Blues Albums
May 31, 2001 Living Blues Poll   

artist-album-label

1. Robin Bank$-Honestly-self
2. Various-Blues Harp Meltdown-Mountain Top
3. Billy Boy Arnold-Boogie N Shuffle-Stony Plain
4. Lucky Peterson-Double Dealin-Blue Thumb
5. Henry Gray-Plays Chicago Blues-Hightone
6. Destini Rawls-I'm Movin In-JSP
7. Elmore James-Shake Your Moneymaker-Buddha
8. R.L. Burnside-Well well well-MC
9. Chris Beard-Born to play the Blues-JSP
10. Mem Shannon-Memphis in the Morning-Shanachie
11. Debbie Davies-Love the Game-Shanachie
12. Hoodoo Kings-Hoodoo Kings-Telarc
13. Lee Shot Williams-Somebody's after my Freak-Ecko
14. Buddy Guy-Sweet Tea-Silvertone
15. Chick Willis-From the Heart and Soul-Rock House
16. Lightnin' Hopkins-Lightnin and the Blues-Buddha
17. Bennie Smith-Shook Up-Fedora
18. Bill Perry-Fire it Up-Blind Pig
19. Deborah Coleman-Livin on Love-Blind Pig
20. Various-Hellhound On My Trail-Telarc
21. Marcia Ball-Presumed Innocent-Alligator
22. Robert Cray-Shoulda Been Home-Ryko
23. Roy Roberts-Burnin Love-Rock House
24. Tommy Young-Keeper of the B-self
25. Michael Burks-Make it Rain-Alligator

[edit] Clean Up

Please give example on clean up. I am not sure why you say this reads like a review. I am not trying to be trite. Please give example. Thanks.