Duster Bennett

Anthony "Duster" Bennett (23 September 1946 – 26 March 1976) was a British blues singer and musician. Based around 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. (Read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Duster Bennett emerged on the British blues scene in 1968, signing for Blue Horizon Records, which also included Peel favourites Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack on its roster and was one of the most frequently played record labels on Top Gear. Peel especially liked Duster Bennett's one-man-band style because it was strongly influenced by the DJ's own favourite bluesmen from his time in Texas - Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo and Lightnin' Slim among them. Peel played his records on Top Gear, introduced him on live performances and featured him in session. Although Bennett's career seemed to slump after the late 1960s country blues boom had ended, he continued to work into the mid-1970s. The simplicity and directness of his music would probably have enabled him to survive the "punk wars" of the late 1970s, had he not been killed in a road crash when driving home from a gig in March 1976.

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