September 11, 1935 – Ben Hewitt was born in a one-room, dirt-floor log cabin on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in New York State. Hewitt made four fine records for Mercury Records in the late fifties, then disappeared from view until he was tracked down, in 1983, by Colin Escott and Hank Davis, who were in the process of compiling a Bear Family LP of Ben’s recordings. He is sometimes described as a Canadian artist, but though he did live close to the Canadian border for much of his life, he was in fact a US citizen. #ROCkabillyHop #HappyBirthday #BenHewitt #RocHop #OTD
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