Buster Benton - Money Is The Name of The Game

DCA Blues Music Studio is a channel bringing you the best in old and new late-night blues and Jazz music. Mixing sound and visual effects to enhance your overall enjoyment of each tune. Artist: Buster Benton Title: Money Is The Name of The Game Album: Blues & Trouble Released 2002 Despite the amputation of parts of both his legs during the course of his career, Chicago guitarist Buster Benton never gave up playing his music -- an infectious hybrid of blues and soul that he dubbed at one point “disco blues“ (an unfortunate appellation in retrospect, but useful in describing its danceability). In the late ’70s, when blues was at low ebb, Benton’s waxings for Ronn Records were a breath of fresh air. Inspired by the music of Sam Cooke and B.B. King, the gospel-bred Benton began playing the blues during the mid-’50s while living in Toledo, Ohio. By 1959, he was leading his own band in Chicago. During the ’60s, he cut a series of soul-slanted singles for local