Bennie Smith, a guitarist and blues legend in St. Louis, died Sunday following a heart attack. He was 72. Smith was not a huge recording act. But he contributed to countless sessions and played with ...

The blues community caught the blues this year when they learned that one of their own, 72-year-old guitar legend Bennie Smith, suffered a heart attack. Smith is making stride toward recovery, but ...

evening, September 10, 2006 from complications following a heart attack. He was 73 years old. With his nothing-to-prove proficiency on the stratocaster guitar and his quiet off-stage presence, he has ...

ST. LOUIS -- Even on the day Bennie Smith died, the gig went on. Smith, a guitarist and blues legend in St. Louis, died Sunday following a heart attack. He was 72. Smith, Kim Massie and the Soulard ...