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Track: I Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
Artist: Robert Wilkins
Album: The Prodigal Son

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Name: Robert Wilkins
Spotify Genres: country blues, blues, classic blues, ragtime
Followers: 5,518
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Blues and gospel singer and guitarist. Born: January 16, 1896, in Hernando, Mississippi Died: May 26, 1987 in Memphis, Tennessee Wilkins moved to Memphis in 1915, and in the 1920s and 1930s played with such luminaries as [a=Furry Lewis], [a=Memphis Minnie], and [a=Son House]. He recorded blues for the Victor, Brunswick and Vocalion labels 1928-1935, but in the late 1930s joined the Church of God in Christ, where he became an ordained minister in 1950, and only played gospel music. He recorded a full LP of gospel songs in 1964. Father of [a1654004].

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Release: Rev. Robert Wilkins* - Rev. Robert Wilkins (1964)
Year: N/A
Genres: Blues
Styles: Country Blues