re: #25 albusteve

we’ve probably read all the same books eh?…I’m not sure anybody knew Johnson as intimately as young Lockwood…and Lockwoods reputation for honesty and integrity was unparalleled…you could take his word for it

From Robert Lockwood, Jr’s website

He learned the guitar, at age eleven, from Robert Johnson, the mysterious delta bluesman, who was living with his mother. From Johnson, Lockwood learned chords, timing, and stage presence. By the age of fifteen, Robert was playing professionally, often with Johnson; sometimes with Johnny Shines or Rice Miller, who would soon be calling himself Sonny Boy Williamson II.

They would play fish fries, juke joints, and street corners. Once Johnson played one side of the Sunflower River, while Lockwood manned the other bank. The people of Clarksville, Mississippi were milling around the bridge; they couldn’t tell which guitarist was Robert Johnson. Young Lockwood had learned Johnson’s techniques very well.

Robert Lockwood Jr. was 22 when Robert Johnson passed away in 1937.

I’m Gonna Train My Baby

MP3 Audio
- Robert Lockwood, Jr. 1941

It doesn’t get better than this.