Duster Bennett
Anthony Duster Bennett was a British blues singer and musician. Based in London, his first album Smiling Like Im Happy saw him playing as a oneman 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.
Bennett was born in Welshpool, Powys, Mid Wales. Emerging in the late 1960s from the art school music scene of KingstonuponThames and Guildford, Bennett was a oneman blues band, in the style of bluesmen such as Joe Hill Lewis,with virtuosity and coordination on drums, guitar and harmonica. His live sets combined his own compositions with Jimmy Reedstyle blues standards often aided by friends Peter Green and Top Topham. He was a session musician in the early 1960s playing harmonica. Between 1968 and 1970 he was played on John Peels Top Gear, toured and eventually joined John Mayalls Bluesbreakers as band membersolo act on a US tour in 1970. In the 1970s he drifted off into more mainstream material.
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