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Robert Curtis Smith (February 17, 1930 – November 10, 2010)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=R.C. Smith discography )〕 was an African American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.〔 Smith was influenced by Big Bill Broonzy.〔 He released one album on Bluesville Records in 1963.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Curtis Smith – The Blues Of Robert Curtis Smtih )〕 ==Biography== Smith was born in, or around, Cruger, Mississippi, United States.〔 He worked as a poor farm labourer in upper Mississippi, where he and his wife raised eight children. He first played the blues guitar in 1948.〔 He left the Delta area twice in hope of finding alternative employment in either Chicago or Texas, but each time returned to his birthplace.〔 In 1960, by chance, he met Paul Oliver and Chris Strachwitz in Wade Walton's Big Six barber shop in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This led to him recording some tracks that year and in 1961, which in turn saw the release of ''The Blues of Robert Curtis Smith: Clarksdale Blues'' in 1963.〔〔 One of his songs, "Council Spur Blues", made direct references to the conditions on the plantation where he worked.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Curtis Smith – Clarksdale Blues )〕 In 1968, he left the Mississippi again for Chicago, where he spent the remainder of his life. Around this time he auditioned for a place in Willie Dixon's backing band.〔 He later joined the church and left the blues for a gospel music existence. Walton eventually tracked him down and, in 1997, Smith appeared at the Sunflower River Blues Festival in Clarksdale, playing purely gospel songs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Council Spur Blues - Robert Curtis Smith, RIP )〕 Smith died in Chicago in November 2010, aged 80.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Curtis Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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