Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 41. - Fenton Robinson: Mellow Fellow (1993)

Fenton Robinson (September 23, 1935 — November 25, 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar.
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, Robinson left his home at the age of 18 to move to Memphis, Tennessee, where he recorded his first single "Tennessee Woman" in 1957. He settled in Chicago in 1962. His signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" (1967) was covered by Boz Scaggs in 1969, but attributed to Scaggs himself, resulting in legal battles. The nationwide distribution of Robinson's own version of the song was aborted by a freak snow storm hitting Chicago. The song has since become a blues standard, according to 1997's Encyclopedia of Blues being "part of the repertoire of one out of every two blues artists.

Robinson re-recorded the song, which was originally recorded in 1967 for the Palos label, for the critically acclaimed album Somebody Loan Me a Dime in 1974, the first of three he would produce under the Alligator Records label. For the second, 1977's I Hear Some Blues Downstairs, Robinson was nominated for a Grammy Award.

In the 1970s he was arrested and imprisoned for vehicular manslaughter. Paroled after nine months, he continued playing in Chicago clubs, and later taught guitar.

He died of complications from brain cancer, in Rockford, Illinois.

Tracks:
01 (3:43) Somebody Loan Me A Dime
02 (3:29) The Sky Is Crying
03 (2:50) Smokestack Lightning
04 (3:06) Little Red Rooster
05 (3:15) Moanin' For My Baby
06 (2:54) Don't Start Me To Talkin'
07 (2:42) Stormy Monday
08 (2:38) Leave You In The Arms (Of Your Other Man)
09 (3:26) Let Me Come On Home
10 (2:52) The Getaway
11 (2:46) Sideman
12 (4:45) Give You Some Air
13 (3:27) I'm Not Through Loving You
14 (4:24) Mellow Fellow
15 (5:14) She's A Wiggler
16 (3:51) Little Turch
17 (4:01) I Wanna Ooh!
18 (2:28) Laughing And Crying Blues
19 (2:57) I Fell In Love One Time

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