Robert Lockwood, Jr. 1st Interview

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This program features what I, and the original interviewer Ron Weinstock, believe is the first ever extended interview with Robert Lockwood, Jr. This took place at the studios of radio station WRUW-FM on the campus of Case-Western Reserve University in early 1971. Present in the studio were Weinstock, Lockwood, Dave Griggs, and myself. Robert had recently emerged from a ten year semi-retirement and was playing as a featured guest in the Dave Griggs band, in clubs around the Greater Cleveland area. He had not yet put together his own band. Robert talks about himself (Robert never had problems with self-esteem), and many of the people he worked with over the years including Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Lester Melrose, and Doctor Clayton. This program may be a bit esoteric, but I believe it's an historically significant document that deserves and needs to be heard. A special thanks goes out to the late Nick Amster, who paid to have someone go through a large box of reel-to-reel tapes to find the one that had this interview on it.

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