Blues musician Little Arthur Duncan, 74
Posted: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 3:55 pmFebruary 5, 1934 - August 20, 2008
Little Arthur Duncan was a blues man of the old school who sang in a soulful voice that owed as much to James Brown as to Robert Johnson and who blew his harmonica as if his life depended upon it. He played the blues for more than a half a century but did not begin recording until he was in his mid-fifties, finally enjoying in the sunset of his years the success that had eluded him as a younger man, when he was forced to work on building sites during the week while playing with minimal reward in the blues clubs of Chicago at the weekend. …
