Born in the small town of Charleston, Tennessee, singer-songwriter and pianist
Benjamin Latimore began to make a name for himself playing piano in and around
Florida in the late 1960s and playing sessions for the Miami-based Dade label.
Latimore subsequently signed to Glades and recorded a heavily revamped version
of 'Stormy Monday', the 1947 blues classic by T-Bone Walker. Latimore's version
moved away from the original recording's slow twelve bar blues replacing it with
a syncopated, upbeat jazz style which completely altered the mood of the song.
Latimore's version brought him...