Al Benson

b. Arthur Leaner, 30 June 1908, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, d. 6 Sept 1978, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA. By age seven, Benson was tap-dancing along with his dad’s jazz music group, and he continued to operate in minstrel displays and to make musicals. His restless energy resulted in several widely varying careers, including Main of Entertainment for Jackson’s dark colleges, a railroad prepare, probation official and storefront preacher. His radio profession started on Chicago’s WGES having a spiritual programme and an R&B display that lasted until 1962. In the past due 40s and early 50s he began several record labels, Aged Swingmaster (one of is own radio tags), Bird and Blue Lake, documenting such performers as J.B. Lenoir, Sunnyland Slim, Albert Ruler, Willie Mabon and Small Willie Foster. Crash as well as the Blues each experienced a brief existence through the 60s, liberating materials by Magic Sam, Shakey Jake, Johnny ‘Big Moose’ Walker among others. Benson’s flamboyant and self-willed personality ultimately undermined his position in the dark community, although he was mixed up in civil rights motion, once finding a aircraft to drop 5, 000 copies of the united states Constitution over Mississippi. In old age, he owned an archive shop in Michigan Town before dropping both legs because of ill wellness, which also ultimately resulted in his loss of life from heart failing.