Benny Turner – Survivor: The Benny Turner Story

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“After more than 60 years in the music business, performing gospel, R&B, soul and blues everywhere from the Chitlin Circuit to the Apollo Theater to the far reaches of the globe, Benny Turner has taken his rightful place on center stage. A career sideman to iconic musicians such as Dee Clark, The Soul Stirrers, Mighty Joe Young, Marva Wright-Blues Queen of New Orleans, and his brother the late Freddie King, Benny is a new shining star in the blues world. Singer, songwriter and producer, his critically-acclaimed latest release, “When She’s Gone,” contains the 2016 Independent Music Awards Blues Song of the Year, “I Can’t Leave.” Benny’s soulful singing and unique lead bass playing are both captivating and entertaining. At age 77, he continues performing and recording, and shows no signs of slowing down. He says, “I’m a survivor, and I ain’t tired yet!”Lifelong Chicago resident Bill Dahl began writing about music professionally in 1977. He free-lances for many publications including Vintage Rock, Blues Music Magazine, and the Reader, and is the author of The Art of the Blues, a 2016 book published by University of Chicago Press, and 2001s Motown: The Golden Years (Krause Publications).Bill specializes in writing liner notes for CD reissues, focusing predominantly on music of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. He was nominated for a Grammy in 1998 as one of the liner notes writers for Rhinos Ray Charles Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection. He produced and compiled Bear Familys Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues 1939-2005The Definitive Collection!, which won the 2013 Blues Music Award for Historical Album.”