Talk:Bennie Smith
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[edit]After meeting Bennie and hearing his history, I did a bunch of searching on the internet and found a number of pages with information on him. These are pretty reputable sites and so am pretty confident on the information there. The web's not all bad, after all Wikipedia is here: quod erat demonstratum.
Sites to look at:
Moved to reference section of the article.
Since the significance of an artist often revolves around who his contemporaries are, here is a top 25 album list from the time the last album he recorded on came out (which happened to be his own).
Top Records in May 2001 for KNON 89.3 FM, Dallas Texas, 55,000 watts stereo Top 25 Blues Albums May 31, 2001 Living Blues Poll artist-album-label 1. Robin Bank$-Honestly-self 2. Various-Blues Harp Meltdown-Mountain Top 3. Billy Boy Arnold-Boogie N Shuffle-Stony Plain 4. Lucky Peterson-Double Dealin-Blue Thumb 5. Henry Gray-Plays Chicago Blues-Hightone 6. Destini Rawls-I'm Movin In-JSP 7. Elmore James-Shake Your Moneymaker-Buddha 8. R.L. Burnside-Well well well-MC 9. Chris Beard-Born to play the Blues-JSP 10. Mem Shannon-Memphis in the Morning-Shanachie 11. Debbie Davies-Love the Game-Shanachie 12. Hoodoo Kings-Hoodoo Kings-Telarc 13. Lee Shot Williams-Somebody's after my Freak-Ecko 14. Buddy Guy-Sweet Tea-Silvertone 15. Chick Willis-From the Heart and Soul-Rock House 16. Lightnin' Hopkins-Lightnin and the Blues-Buddha 17. Bennie Smith-Shook Up-Fedora 18. Bill Perry-Fire it Up-Blind Pig 19. Deborah Coleman-Livin on Love-Blind Pig 20. Various-Hellhound On My Trail-Telarc 21. Marcia Ball-Presumed Innocent-Alligator 22. Robert Cray-Shoulda Been Home-Ryko 23. Roy Roberts-Burnin Love-Rock House 24. Tommy Young-Keeper of the B-self 25. Michael Burks-Make it Rain-Alligator
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[edit]Please give example on clean up. I am not sure why you say this reads like a review. I am not trying to be trite. Please give example. Thanks.
What is the big deal for Inline Citations
[edit]How are inline citations any better than references, other than cluttering up article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.254.110 (talk) 02:27, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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