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There aren’t many houses in the small town of Bernice, Louisiana that Robert Finley hasn’t worked on in one way or another.

For most of his life, Finley’s chosen vocation was carpentry, but his calling has always been music.

He grew up not far from Bernice in Winnsboro, where he started singing in his church choir at the age 4 and bought his first guitar at age 10.

“If you were big enough to talk, you were big enough to sing in my house,” Finley recalled.

And although Finley, 64, put his dreams of making it as a blues artist on hold long ago, he continued to perform from time to time at little venues in the South, ranging from the local pre-school to fish fries to nursing homes.

“I was undiscovered,” Finley said. “Maybe I was noticed, but it wasn’t by the right person at the right time.”

A few years ago, Finley began to lose his sight, and legal blindness forced him into early retirement.

He also got divorced and lost his house and trailer to a fire.

But as Finley told the Daily News, “Sometimes things look like they’re for your bad and they’re really for your good.”

Now, over 50 years since he first dreamed of becoming a star, Robert Finley has arrived.

Finley, who performed Sunday at Rough Trade in Brooklyn and will be at the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan Wednesday night, has cut his first two albums in the past couple of years.

This new chapter, according to Finley, began in 2015 when he was discovered busking on a sidewalk during the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Arkansas by the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit that helps aging blues musicians.

That chance encounter led to an introduction to Bruce Watson at Fat Possum Records, who asked Finley to make an album on the label.

Finley released his debut album, “Age Don’t Mean a Thing,” on Fat Possum and Big Legal Mess Records in 2016.

Though the album — blues tinged with R&B and soul — didn’t make too much noise in terms of sales, it did find its way to Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, who subsequently asked Finley to collaborate.

“I didn’t know who (Auerbach) was,” Finley said. “Then, when I got a chance to meet Dan, we just kind of clicked all at once.”

Auerbach and Finley decamped to Auerbach’s Nashville studio for four days in the hopes of recording four songs for the soundtrack to the graphic novel “Murder Ballads.”

“But we ended up doing the book in one day and we had three days left. Dan was like, ‘Why don’t you do an album while you’re here?” Finley said. “So we did the album, and we were able to pull it off in a day-and-a-half, two days. It was amazing.”

Auerbach recruited legendary session musicians, as well as guitarist Duane Eddy and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, to work on the album, which features songs written by Auerbach, John Prine, Nick Lowe, Pat McLaughlin and more.

The result was “Goin’ Platinum,” Finley’s sophomore album and his first for Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label, which was released this past November.

“If you have a light bulb, it doesn’t matter how many watts it is or how bright it can shine. Until you put elecetricity to it, it just sits there,” Finley said. “These guys were my electricity. They gave me a chance to shine.”

Auerbach also invited Finley to come on tour with him as part of the Easy Eye Revue, which showcased artists signed to the label.

Even more than in the studio, it’s onstage where Finley truly comes alive.

Named the “undisputed star” of the Revue by Rolling Stone, Finley’s reputation for high-energy performances have since led to touring opportunities supporting bigger names like Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats and Lake Street Dive.

“You can sit on a porch in a rocking chair at any age,” Finley said. “To be 64 years old and be able to go to the floor and come back up, it signifies that you can’t judge a book by its cover.”

Despite his streak of success, Finley knows it’s important to stay humble and remember where you came from.

He still lives in Bernice and sings in choir every Sunday he isn’t touring at the New Hopewell Baptist Church.

“If you get up and put the same hat on your head every morning, that lets you know you’re head’s not swelling,” Finley said.

He’s reluctant to say whether or not he’s achieved his dream.

“Things are better now than they were before or than they’ve ever been,” Finley said. “But it’s just a step in the right direction. If you’re ever 100% satisfied, you’re not going to try to get any better.”

He maintains that his goal is simple: to continue topping each performance with his next performance.

“I’m not going to hold back or save anything for tomorrow night because tomorrow night is not promised,” Finley said. “Every night is like the first night, and every night could be the last night.”