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Blues Legends:
The Blues of
Robert Lockwood Jr.
(DVD 2004; 1984 Concert in New Orleans; BRAND NEW & Factory Sealed)
**Note: This is the Region 1 USA version of the blues concert
Recorded Live, August 29, 1984 - New Orleans
Legendary bluesman Robert Lockwood Jr. has the unique honor of being the only person who Robert Johnson ever agreed to teach. The Arkansas native, a master of the classic blues style classified as the "Delta Blues," has influenced younger legends like Muddy Waters and B.B. King. Here, he is filmed in 1984 in the sultry city of New Orleans, and, though nearly 70 years old, manages to give a gritty, impassioned performance of 9 classics. Songs included are "Exactly Like You," "Kind Hearted Woman," and "Come On Baby, Take a Walk With Me."
In the early 1930s, when Robert Lockwood was around 16 or 17 years of age, his mother Estelle struck up a relationship with the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson who was himself only about 20. It was to be one of the most durable of the itinerant musician's many romantic alliances, and was to provide Lockwood, a sickly youth with a desire to learn an instrument, with a unique opportunity to study guitar at the feet of an absolute master. As far as is known, Lockwood was the only person that Johnson ever gave lessons to, and so great an impression did he make that the younger man claims never to have really listened to another guitarist after this time.
Johnson and Lockwood were to assume the roles of stepfather and stepson (the Jr. which has appeared both before and after Lockwood's surname is commonly held to recognize his kinship with Johnson as much as with Robert Lockwood Sr., his real father), and they occasionally played for tips together on trips away from home in Helena, Arkansas.
Although Lockwood was to become one of the premier interpreters of his stepfather's songs - check out the versions of "Kind Hearted Woman" included here - the most important lesson he seems to have learned was always to experiment, to push the music forward, rather than to merely reproduce the Delta standards note for note. Indeed, Lockwood's playing quickly began to display be-bop and modern jazz touches, just as many commentators believe Johnson would have, had he lived into the 1940s.
During that decade, Lockwood made his first recordings ("Take A Little Walk With Me" was amongst them), and he became, along with his partner, Sonny Boy Williamson (II), one of the biggest blues names in radio, thanks to their groundbreaking "King Biscuit Time" broadcasts from Helena station KFFA. In the late 1940s, shortly before moving to Chicago, he gave music lessons to a rather wayward young guitarist named B.B. King.
In the Windy City, Lockwood worked with Otis Spann, Little Walter, Sunnyland Slim, Sonny Boy, Muddy Waters, and so on, helping to define the Chicago blues guitar sound, and appearing on many classic sessions along the way. In recent years, he's tended to exercise his unusual predilection for the 12-string electric guitar, and it is with this instrument that he's featured during this entertaining solo performance.
Features/Specs:
- Full Screen Presentation
- Original B&W
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- Dolby Digital Mono
- Language: English
- Region 1 USA/Canada Version (NTSC)
- Not Rated
- Approx 32 min
Starring: Robert Lockwood Jr.
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