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Continued from page 6
Published on April 26, 2006
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Jennifer Silverberg
Bennie Smith, the Dean of St. Louis Electric Guitarists, is still playing club gigs at age 72. He can't afford not to.
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Jennifer Silverberg
Henry Townsend has recorded in each of the past seven decades. He's 96, and still keeping on.
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Bennie Smith, Henry Townsend, Rudy "Silver Cloud" Coleman, Marquise KnoxThat said, he's well aware of the fate that has befallen many older blues musicians.
"People in America take blues for granted," Knox says. "I'm still trying to figure out how they runnin' the social security in line with musicians. If I've been playing the blues all my life and I'm making all this money, do I get a social security check too when I come of age? A question like that, ain't nobody ever talked about it. Don't no bluesman talk about how it is having the blues being old."
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