Robert Covington

Robert Covington, given birth to in Yazoo Town, MS, on Dec 13, 1941, was raised taking music and tone of voice lessons. Active mainly because an adolescent in drum and bugle corps, Covington performed in several bands, including Small Melvin as well as the Downbeats. Going to go to university (what became Alcorn Condition University or college in Lorman, MS), he select instead to become listed on Big Joe Turner’s group when that participant passed through city buying drummer. Turner’s stage existence and vocal technique became a significant inspiration and coach for him, plus they toured the South everything summer season and fall. In 1962, Covington experienced some small achievement using the Lee Covington Review and his solitary, “I UNDERSTAND.” His group experienced a horn section, feminine back-up signers, and supported organizations like Ernie K-Doe and Ted Taylor. Covington relocated to Chicago in 1965 and used Little Walter, Friend Man, Fenton Robinson, Friend Man, Junior Wells, and Lonnie “Acoustic guitar Junior” Brooks. He sat along with Sunnyland Slim in the Soaring Fox plus they began to interact frequently. In 1983 he became a full-time person in the Sunnyland Slim Music group. As Slim’s rate of recurrence of performing dropped (in his old age), Covington fronted his personal band and founded his own status. He was a sizzling take action at Kingston Mines in Chicago, where he offered as the golf swing singer; he actually headlined one night time weekly. Covington’s clean delivery and big-band design voice has gained him the nickname, “fantastic tone of voice.” Robert Covington passed away on January 17, 1996, in Chicago.