Robert Belfour

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Robert "Wolfman" Belfour (born September 11, 1940, Holly Springs, MS, passed February 24, 2015) is an American Blues musician. His father, Grant Belfour taught him the guitar at a young age and he continued his tutelage in the Blues from musicians Otha Turner, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough, in particular, had a profound influence on him. His father died when Belfour was thirteen, and his music was relegated to what little free time he had, as his energy went to helping his mother provide for the family. In 1959, he married Noreen Norman and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he would work in construction for the next 35 years. In the 1980s Belfour began playing on Beale street and in 1994 he had eight songs featured on the compilation The Spirit Lives On, Deep South Country Blues and Spirituals in the 1990s. This lead to Fat Possum Records and his first album What's Wrong With You, released in 2000. Robert Belfour's sophomore effort for Fat Possum -- at 63, he is one of the youngest artists on the roster and is by far the most "polished," if the Delta blues can ever really be called that -- proves his debut was indeed only a beginning. In stark contrast to his labelmates, Belfour strictly plays acoustic blues, but he plays them with the same dark, trancelike feel of Junior Kimbrough, haunting spookiness of Fred McDowell, rhythmic intensity of John Lee Hooker, and sprawling drawl of Lightnin' Hopkins. Ted Gainey aids Belfour on a drum kit. While the first

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What's Wrong With You

Pushin My Luck

Pushin' My Luck

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Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down

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The Rough Guide to Delta Blues

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The Spirit Lives On: Deep South Blues And Spirituals

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Not The Same Old Blues Crap, Vol. 3

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Africa and the Blues (Connections and Reconnections)

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Rough Guide To The Delta Blues

Not the Same Old Blues Crap, Vol. 2

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - disc 3/7

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Not The Same Old Blues Crap 3

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