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Legend Live
Robert Lockwood Jr
Legend Live
Genres: Blues, Pop
 
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No one can lay a more credible claim to the blues legacy of Robert Johnson than his one and only student, 89-year-old legend-in-his-own-right Robert Lockwood Jr. And few, if any, can conjure up the original sound and sensi...  more »

     
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All Artists: Robert Lockwood Jr
Title: Legend Live
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: M.C. Records
Release Date: 3/9/2004
Genres: Blues, Pop
Styles: Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Traditional Blues, Electric Blues, Acoustic Blues
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 607735005128

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No one can lay a more credible claim to the blues legacy of Robert Johnson than his one and only student, 89-year-old legend-in-his-own-right Robert Lockwood Jr. And few, if any, can conjure up the original sound and sensibility of Johnson's music as expertly as Lockwood can, armed only with his trusty 12-string guitar. Lockwood received hands-on mentoring from Johnson, who taught him to play guitar from age 11, and he's now played Johnson's songs a half-century longer than their short-lived creator did. His experienced grasp of their nuances is unmatched. Lockwood's use of the 12-string guitar serves to distance and differentiate him from those who were influenced, but not actually instructed, by Johnson. His approach on Johnson classics like "Sweet Home Chicago," the first song Lockwood learned from the legend, and "From Four Until Late" slows the songs down from their modern semi-boogie tempo to create plaintive personal statements. Lockwood offers more than just Johnson, opening with an evocative rendition of Texas folk-blues hero Mance Lipscomb's "Meet Me in the Bottom" and mixing in three Leroy Carr tunes (including "How Long Blues") plus a couple of songs from Roosevelt Sykes, an artist with whom he recorded during his stint as a session star at Chess Records in the '50s. --Michael Point

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CD Reviews

Gotta Love Lockwood
Mildred A. Talarico | Parma | 03/17/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This cd highlights what Robert did when he began. He played by himself. Robert is probably one of the only people that can play and entice an audience with his 12 string guitar by himself.It is amazing that he is 89 years old and can travel the world playing on his twelve string and with his band. The cd is very relaxing and enjoyable. It is a show of what can be done on a 12 string guitar. The tune Exactly like you was meant for that.Buy this cd, and hopefully you will hear what the true Legend is all about."
On top of his game.
. | Chicago, IL USA | 04/08/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The last I saw Lockwood live was sometime around 1985,(18 years before this cd was recorded), and it's clear here that he's been back to the woodshed; playing even better than when he was a youngster of seventy!"