Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

Kelly Benjamin recently found an old Lewis Clark 45 on ebay, which inspired him to recall one of the greatest and relatively unknown bluesman ever to hail from the Tampa area: Forgotten Legends of Tampa Part 2: Lewis Clark:

Catching the eye and ear of Otis Redding at a concert at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Lewis decided to drive up to Macon, Georgia two days later to meet with the Great Otis Redding at the Red Wall Corp. (Otis’s publishing company with the likes of Betty Swan and Sam and Dave). During the meeting, Otis agreed to become Lewis’s manager, however Redding was tragically killed in a plane crash two months later and with him went the big time dreams of musical success of Lewis Clark.

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