Buster Benton

Buster Benton

Buster Benton

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Top Songs

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Money Is the Name of the Game
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Lonesome for a Dime
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Dangerous Woman
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Sweet 94
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Good to the Last Drop

Albums

  • The Very Best of Buster Benton: Expanded Edition

    Nov 2014 • 14 songs

  • That's The Reason

    Oct 2006 • 12 songs

  • Is the Feeling

    Apr 1981 • 9 songs

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Buster Benton

Biography

Despite the amputation of parts of both his legs during the course of his career, Chicago guitarist Buster Benton never gave up playing his music -- an infectious hybrid of blues and soul that he dubbed at one point "disco blues" (an unfortunate appellation in retrospect, but useful in describing its danceability). In the late '70s, when blues was at low ebb, Benton's waxings for Ronn Records were a breath of fresh air. Inspired by the music of Sam Cooke and B.B. King, the gospel-bred Benton began playing the blues during the mid-'50s while living in Toledo, Ohio. By 1959, h...
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