Robt. Lockwood's Guitar Transformation
Blues You Should Know
English - November 17, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsArts blues music old-time Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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At f his 1941 debut recordings, Robt. Lockwood, Jr. was a finger-style, acoustic disciple of his step-father Robert Johnson. By the early 1950's, he'd transformed himself into perhaps the hottest electric lead guitarist on the Chicago recording scene. This episode tells how this happened.