Smokey Wilson remains one of America's most precious and irreplaceable treasures, the Bluesman. Born in Mississippi in 1936, Robert Lee 'Smokey' Wilson learned the blues at the feet of legends like Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King. As a child, Smokey's burning desire to play the blues had to be satisfied on a home-made broom handle and bailing wire guitar until his mother bought him his first acoustic at thirteen.

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