I love Fat's music, even the stuff that wasn't a hit, and he had a lot of hits.
What surprised me about his death, I didn't realize he was alive. His music was older and I just never heard anything about him, not even in my younger days. If he came through St. Louis I didn't know about it, he wasn't on TV like Little Richard, not even a late night jam on one of the talk shows. Maybe that's why I feel like he didn't get the recognition he deserved. He lived for 89 years which is a good run on life but his death didn't get the attention of Chester Bennington or Chuck Berry etc. Maybe Fats needed to hang with a Rolling Stone, smile