Allison did from undisclosed causes at his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, his family said in a statement on his website. Raised outside the town of Tippo, Mississippi, Allison was a rare white star in blues. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked," he later said in an interview with The A.V. Asked if he faced pushback as a white blues artist, he said with a laugh: "I didn't have any trouble until I got to New York. She performed "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy," a peace anthem which Allison wrote during the Vietnam War and took back up during the first Gulf War.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 16, 2016 00:03 UTC