Wilbert Longmire has been played on NTS in shows including The Gaza Strip, featured first on 10 July 2015. Songs played include Black Is The Color, This Side Of Heaven and Funshine.

Wilbert Longmire Thomas (1941 - 3 January 2018) was an American rhythm & blues and jazz guitarist.

Longmire was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and learned the violin as a child before gravitating to the guitar. The first band he played in was a doo-wop group called The Students. When he was 23, he joined Hammond hero, Hank Marr’s combo in the early ’60s and later joined the band of another organist, Philly-based Trudy Pitts,…