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Roy Roberts (blues artist)

1943–

United States

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Roy Roberts (born February 22, 1942) is an American blues musician, record producer, and singer-songwriter. Roberts was born and grew up in a small town in Livingston, Tennessee, United States, listening to blues and R&B on radio stations. At the age of 14 he worked on a nearby farm to earn the money for his first guitar, a mail order Sears Silvertone.

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