Prodigal Son

(CD Digipack with 28-page booklet; 13 tracks & more than 56 minutes playing time) Memphis bluesman Robert Wilkins recorded between 1928 and 1935 - and then disappeared. Researcher Dick Spottswood rediscovered him in 1964 and gave him a new career. Of all the rediscovered pre-War blues singers, Wilkins was among the finest. His vocals and guitar playing were still very strong and confident. But Wilkins had become a preacher and wouldn't do blues as he had recorded them before the War. Instead, he recorded gospel songs with the fire and passion with which he'd recorded blues. Spottswood issued some of the Wilkins songs on Memphis Gospel Singer (Piedmont Records) and another four songs on The Old World's In A Hell Of A Fix (Biograph Records). Now all are gathered together, remastered and restored together with Spottswood's detailed remembrance of his friend Robert Wilkins. Includes Wilkins' fabulous blues Prodigal Son, recorded by the Rolling Stones on their classic Beggars' Banquet LP. These ultra-rare recordings were only issued on limited edition LPs in the 1960s and haven't been heard since.