Robert Wilkins
Robert (Timothy ) Wilkins ( born January 16, 1896 in Hernando, Mississippi, † May 26, 1987 in Memphis, Tennessee), known since his ordination in the 1930s and the Reverend Robert Wilkins, was a blues or gospel guitarist and later singer half African American and half Cherokee descent.
Wilkins joined - as well as Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie and Son House - during the 1920s in Memphis. He founded at that time among other things, a jug band to benefit from the one-time fashionable " jug band- craze ". Although he never had similar success, such as the Memphis Jug Band, he could in 1927 to increase its local popularity through an appearance in a local radio station. Sleepy John Estes How (and unlike Gus Cannon of Cannon's Jug Stompers to ) but he made recordings mostly alone or with at most a sideman. He stepped on ( the surname of his stepfather ) as " Tim Wilkins " and " Tim Oliver ."
His most famous songs are "That's No Way To Get Along" (the "worldly" text he exchanged after his ordination to the biblical theme of the " Prodigal Son " and then on " The Prodigal Son " called, and under this title in 1968 by the Rolling Stones has been covered on their album Beggars Banquet ), "Rolling Stone" ( not the same as "Rollin ' Stone" by Muddy Waters from 1950, the song that the Rolling Stones helped to her name ), and " Old Jim Canan 's ".
In the 1930s, Wilkins was ordained as an elder of the " Church of God in Christ" and began to gospel music - but still with the known of him "Blues Feeling" - to play.
" Reverend " Robert Wilkins was "rediscovered" during the folk and blues revival of the 1960s of the blues enthusiasts Louisa and Dick Spottswood, occurred regularly since then in front of new, white audience at folk festivals and played a number of new records a. What was unique in its versatility; he could both ragtime and blues, gospel Minstrelsongs as present with equal virtuosity.
- Guitarist
- Blues musicians
- American musician
- Born 1896
- Died in 1987
- Man