Fenton Robinson

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1935-09-23

Active to

1997-11-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

125,270

Total plays

704,960

Fenton Robinson (born Fenton Lee Robinson on 23 September 1935; died 25 November 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar. He recorded his signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime", in 1967. The song was used in the film The Blues Brothers, being heard playing on the radio when Jake (John Belushi) is being transported and paroled. A cover version was recorded by Boz Scaggs in 1969. His Japanese fans reverently <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fenton+Robinso

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2009 · cited 18,985x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,989x

5. Integrative genomics viewer

   · 2011 · cited 14,822x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Robinson

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Greenwood

Place of death

Rockford

Genre

blues

Instrument

voice

Record label

Duke Records

Image

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