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Fact #151793

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Joe Willie Wilkins dies aged 58, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He had achieved success as a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter after moving from Mississippi to Memphis. No less an authority than Muddy Waters described Wilkins as "stone great. For blues, like I say, he's the best."