Duster Bennett "Smiling Like I'm Happy" Blue Horizon ?UK 1st press A1/B1 1968
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Duster Bennett ? "Smiling Like I'm Happy" Blue Horizon 7-63208 UK 1st press
Mono Vinyl, LP, released in 1968.
The vinyl has one or two surface marks, but played through beautifully on my stereo - no hops, sticks or pops. The sleeve is also in good condition, no writing or rips. There is some wear to the spine, which remains intact. Matrix/Run Out Side One : 7-63208 A1 Matrix/Run Out Side Two : 7-63208 B1
Anthony "Duster" Bennett (23 September 1946 – 26 March 1976) was a British blues singer and musician. Based in London, his first album "Smiling Like I'm Happy" saw him playing as a one-man band, playing a bass drum with his foot and blowing a harmonica on a rack while strumming a 1952 Les Paul Goldtop guitar given to him in 1968 by Peter Green. Backed by his girlfriend Stella Sutton and the original Fleetwood Mac on three tracks, the album was well received. He remained popular on the local blues club scene until his death in a car crash in 1976.
Duster Bennett was born in Welshpool, Powys, Mid Wales. Emerging in the late 1960s from the art school music scene of Kingston-upon-Thames and Guildford, Bennett was a one-man blues band, in the style of bluesmen such as Joe Hill Louis, with virtuosity and co-ordination on drums, guitar and harmonica. His live sets combined his own compositions with Jimmy Reed-style blues standards often aided by friends Peter Green and Top Topham. He was a session musician in the early 1960s playing harmonica. Between 1968 and 1970 he was played on John Peel's Top Gear, toured and eventually joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers as band member/solo act on a US tour in 1970. In the 1970s he drifted off into more mainstream material.
Duster Bennett recorded three albums and a string of singles for Blue Horizon. After performing with Memphis Slim on 26 March 1976, Bennett was driving home in a Ford Transit van in Warwickshire when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel. The van collided with a truck and Bennett was killed.
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