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When Los Angeles-based guitarist Smokey Wilson actually got seriously interested in environment a full-fledged career being a bluesman in movement, it didn’t take him longer to astound the aficionados with an incendiary 1993 set for Bullseye Blues, Smoke n’ Fire, that conjured up echoes from the Mississippi Delta of his …

Along with his barrelhouse-style piano playing, deeply expressive vocals, and well-crafted lyrics, Mercy Dee (delivered Mercy Walton) produced his presence felt within the blues joints of California’s San Joaquin Valley through the 1950s. His most widely known melody, “One Room Nation Shack,” has truly gone on to turn into a …