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About Robert Jr. Lockwood
In the summer of 1936, on a rain-slicked porch in Greenwood, Mississippi, he bent his bottleneck over a battered National steel guitar and recorded 'Cottonfield Blues', not for a label, but for a WPA fieldworker with a portable disc cutter. That raw, unvarnished take, with its microtonal bends and guttural vocal phrasing, became the Rosetta Stone for understanding how Delta blues syntax evolved from work chants into personal lament. Unlike contemporaries who smoothed their edges for juke joints or radio, he kept the gravel in his throat and the open-G tuning loose enough to let the strings hum like wind through cotton rows. His collaborations with Robert Johnson weren’t duets, they were call-and-response dialogues across spiritual thresholds, where one man’s slide echoed the other’s foot-tap like a heartbeat skipping time. He never recorded commercially after 1941, choosing instead to teach blind teenagers in Clarksdale how to hear pitch in the rustle of kudzu vines.
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- “What did you mean when you said 'the guitar don't lie, but it don't tell the whole truth either'?”
- “How did you tune your National steel for 'Cottonfield Blues'—and why skip the third string?”
- “Did Robert Johnson ever ask you about the crossroads story—or did he laugh it off?”
- “What hymn did you borrow the bassline from for 'Gravel Road Moan'?”