⬇️ ROBERT BELFOUR ⬇️
(Robert 'Wolfman' Belfour)
(3CD)
BIOGRAPHY
His music was rooted in Mississippi hill country traditions, in contrast
to Delta blues. His playing was characterized by a percussive attack and
alternate tunings.
When Belfour was thirteen, his father died, and music was relegated to
what free time he had, as his energy went to helping his mother provide
for the family. In 1959, he married Noreen Norman and moved to Memphis,
Tennessee, where he worked in construction for the next 35 years.
In the 1980s, Belfour began playing on Beale Street. Eight of his songs
are included on the musicologist David Evans's compilation album The
Spirit Lives On: Deep South Country Blues and Spirituals in the 1990s,
released by the German Hot Fox label in 1994. This led Belfour to Fat
Possum Records and record his first album, What's Wrong with You, released
in 2000.
The album Pushin' My Luck followed in 2003, receiving a positive critical
review.
Belfour died on February 24, 2015, at the age of 74.
