Robert Lockwood Jr

[swag]

Grammy Award-nominated bluesman Robert Lockwood Jr., one of the last direct links to the primal blues of the Mississippi Delta and a popular fixture on Cleveland's music scene for decades, died of respiratory failure Tuesday afternoon at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. He was 91.

Full story:

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1164189449118180.xml&coll=2

[ohio]

oh bummer. RIP Robert

[Staxsun]

I had known for some time that Robert was getting close, as he had been in the hospital a while, but hadn't heard the news. He was fiery cuss. I've got to dig up an interview I did with him many years ago. He was a talented entertainer and a true link to the past. We'll miss him.

[ohio]

please do, would love to read it!

[Staxsun]

I'm not sure if I ever transcribed it; somewhere it exists on a cassette tape.

[saturn]

http://www.stlblues.net/images/Lockwood_cu.jpg

RIP