Somebody Loan Me a Dime
Modest, literate, sensible, searching, integrity-bound-that's Fenton Robinson, the Mississippi-born modern blues singer and guitarist who doesn't get a tenth of the attention that smoke-and-verbiage poseurs do as a matter of course. This 1974 album's eleven songs, including the famous title one (swiped by Boz Scaggs), impart a warmhearted sensibility pushed forward by his sophisticated, fluent-with-jazz guitar playing and his engagingly imperfect vocal coloratura. Robinson and his backup musicians, the best known being second guitarist Mighty Joe Young, communicate romantic yearning and resilience with equal skill-memorably so.-- © Frank John Hadley 1993--From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD