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Mark Sallings was born on April 11, 1952 and began performing at 14 years old and never stopped. He began with a small local band,along the"Chitlin Circuit", in clubs like The White Swan in Newport, Arkansas, where BB King and Albert King put down their licks as they traveled the Blues Highway. Mark spent years in the recording and music industry in Memphis, working with many of the studios and developing his own musical style. The Famous Unknowns was a tongue in cheek poke at being the backup band for a lot of big blues artists. The Famous Unknowns were the first house band at BB King's in Memphis Tenn.
Mark Sallings tragically died in a two-vehicle accident on February 25, 2009 while driving to a casino gig in Tunica, Mississippi.