Robert Belfour
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Robert "Wolfman" Belfour (September 11, 1940 – February 24, 2015) was an American blues musician. He was born in Red Banks, Mississippi. When he was a child, his father, Grant Belfour, taught him to play the guitar, and he continued his tutelage in the blues from the musicians Otha Turner, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough, in particular, had a profound influence on him. His music was rooted in Mississippi hill country traditions, in contrast to Delta blues. His playing was characterized by a percussive attack and alternate tunings.
When Belfour was thirteen, his father died, and music was relegated to what free time he had, as his energy went to helping his mother provide for the family. In 1959, he married Noreen Norman and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he worked in construction for the next 35 years.
In the 1980s, Belfour began playing on Beale Street. Eight of his songs are included on the musicologist David Evans's compilation album The Spirit Lives On: Deep South Country Blues and Spirituals in the 1990s, released by the German Hot Fox label in 1994. This led Belfour to Fat Possum Records and record his first album, What's Wrong with You, released in 2000.
The album Pushin' My Luck followed in 2003, receiving a positive critical review.
Belfour died on February 24, 2015, at the age of 74.
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- Mississippi Bollweevil - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Turn It Around - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Smokestack Lightning - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Meet Me in the City - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Come On In - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Trouble - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Traveling On - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Skinny Woman - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Jellyroll - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Hip Shakin Woman - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Jumper On the Line - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Hoochie Coochie Man - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Leash My Pony - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
- Bounceball - North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Vol. III - Robert Belfour
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