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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2013 12:04:39 GMT -5
Discographer Bill Rowe compiled a Lockwood sessionography. Within days of his handing over the manuscript to Soul Bag, he died of a massive heart attack (December 1997). SB's editor, Jacques Perin, very quickly produced a "finished" discography so that it could be given to Bill's family. A very touching gesture. The discography was eventually published over two issues (Robert Lockwood Career Discography.“ Pt 1.“ Soul Bag no. 151 (Summer 1998) p27-30; “Pt 2.” Soul Bag no. 152 (Automne 1998 p 38-41). To cut a long story short, ten years back I converted this "special" to 7 individual PDFs. Anybody interested in seeing them? You have my vote Alan. I would love to have these sessionographies in a searchable database. Where the sessions could be searched by label, artist, year, session musicians. That would make research so much easier. Anyone agree?
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Post by AlanB on Oct 30, 2013 12:20:36 GMT -5
The system will only allows upload of approx 3 PDFs at a time which is a drag.
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Post by AlanB on Oct 30, 2013 12:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by AlanB on Oct 30, 2013 12:29:17 GMT -5
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Post by AlanB on Oct 30, 2013 12:31:08 GMT -5
Last and just to finish off here's a bit of reading. Have fun, or not, as the case maybe Attachments:7Lockwood.pdf (629.34 KB)
AboutBR.pdf (57.14 KB)
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2013 15:11:03 GMT -5
Alan, I don't know if you've been thanked before, (I'm sure you have) but I want to extend my thanks for the great work you have done to preserve and promote the blues and jazz music genre'. These discographies you have put together (and the ones you and others helped Stefan Wirz complete), give us a great history of the recordings of these legends.
THANKS!!!!!!
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Post by AlanB on Oct 31, 2013 1:30:04 GMT -5
Alan, I don't know if you've been thanked before, (I'm sure you have) but I want to extend my thanks for the great work you have done to preserve and promote the blues and jazz music genre'. These discographies you have put together (and the ones you and others helped Stefan Wirz complete), give us a great history of the recordings of these legends. THANKS!!!!!! Spare my blushes p-l-e-a-s-e. Twenty years ago somebody complained in a magazine, to which I was a contributor, that I and my reviews were stuck in a time warp and the Editor should dispense with my services.
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Post by muddylives on Nov 1, 2013 2:52:35 GMT -5
Thanks, Alan!
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2013 8:50:11 GMT -5
An interesting fact about Lockwood: "Lockwood is the only person known to have taken guitar lessons from Johnson." Lockwood, Robert, Jr. Born: 1915 Died: 2006 From: Blues, American Popular Music. Robert Lockwood Jr. got his start in the blues when his mother kept company with Robert Johnson. Lockwood is the only person known to have taken guitar lessons from Johnson. Lockwood traveled with Sonny Boy Williamson in Mississippi and Arkansas, then going on to Memphis and St. Louis, and landing in Chicago in 1941. He then went back south for a couple of years, performing regularly on the King Biscuit Radio Show on station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. Lockwood came to Chicago in 1950, doing studio work at Chess Records, then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961. During the 1980s he recorded with Johnny Shines, another associate of Johnson. Lockwood was known to be more jazz-oriented than most blues players, and he used that influence in his playing. In his later years he has often played acoustic 12-string guitar. With over a dozen albums to his name, Lockwood continued the tradition of Robert Johnson's Delta blues, yet always interpreting the music in his own unique way. He died on November 21, 2006. Citation Weissman, Dick. "Lockwood, Robert, Jr." Blues, American Popular Music. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. (Updated 2009.) African-American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?
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Post by AlanB on Nov 1, 2013 11:46:24 GMT -5
Lockwood came to Chicago in 1950, doing studio work at Chess Records, Being the pedant that I am, he was already living in Chicago and had recorded four songs there for Bluebird Wednesday 30 July 1941 with Bluebird's session imitation string bassist, Alfred Elkins.
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2013 12:15:57 GMT -5
Lockwood came to Chicago in 1950, doing studio work at Chess Records, Being the pedant that I am, he was already living in Chicago and had recorded four songs there for Bluebird Wednesday 30 July 1941 with Bluebird's session imitation string bassist, Alfred Elkins. Has anyone reviewed this book? Are there other mistakes?
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Post by AlanB on Nov 1, 2013 12:33:40 GMT -5
Has anyone reviewed this book? Are there other mistakes? It has been around a while, as has Dick Weissman, who certainly got some "pedigree" behind him. I think it was abstracted from Weissman's huge eight volume series American Popular Music. Problem for me is that these sort of books are hitting the "market place" at such a rate I've just given up considering purchase.
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Post by JamesP on Dec 16, 2015 5:41:37 GMT -5
Speaking of Lockwood's contribution to music...this boogie surely inspired many rock and rollers.
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