Name: I Will Turn Your Money Green
Brand: Furry Lewis

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mk321dlp

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2010-02-22

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Furry Lewis

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R&B / Neo-Soul

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Furry Lewis was an American country blues singer and guitarist. He was born on 6 March 1893 (or 1899) in Greenwood, Mississippi, USA and passed away on 14 September 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Despite losing a leg, Lewis began recording on the Vocalion label in 1927. He was known for his performances around the Memphis music scene, including at Pee Wee Saloon near his home on Beale Street. During his career as a street-sweeper until his retirement in 1966.

In 1972, Lewis joined the renowned Memphis Blues Caravan alongside other notable artists such as *Blind Boy Fuller*, *Bo Carter*, and *Charley Patton*. He even had the opportunity to open for *The Rolling Stones* twice and gained recognition with a profile in Playboy magazine. Sadly, he passed away at the age of 82 due to heart failure after contracting pneumonia. Furry Lewis is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, South Memphis.

one of the great memphis bluesmen of the 1920s, furry lewis was one of the only bluesmen of his generation to achieve widespread fame with the blues revival of the 1960s, after a recording hiatus of nearly three decades. he began his recording career in 1927 (his first session is found here) and his prowess on his instrument, along with his natural flair for storytelling, immediately set apart from so many other struggling young bluesmen. songs like 'john henry' and 'casey jones' are some of the greatest blues narratives ever recorded, and have long since become standard blues fare. although lewis remained an amazing musician up until the end of his life, even opening for the rolling stones during these later years, and appearing on the 'tonight show', these sides represent his best material, recorded at the end of the roaring twenties, when lewis was a young man and at the height of his abilities.

I Will Turn Your Money Green

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