Blues Blues!

[RT3]

For the blues fans. Now spinnin, the only man who ever learnt directly from the great Robert Johnson, the man who ‘made the deal with the devil’ himself. Johnson shackled up with Lockwood’s mother off and on for many years and became something of a mentor and step dad to young Robert. Learning from him, he then began performing with him, and also Sonny Boy Williamson II. So much so that he was called Robert ‘Jr’, somewhat to his chagrin. This record is from a two day blues festival in Tokyo in 1974. Lovely, easy electric blues. The records originally came bundled with a 7inch single (which I sadly don’t yet have).

Robert Jr Lockwood and the Aces, Live Blues. Trio Records, 1975

 

[RT3]

Hot Tuna was the blues-rock side experiment of Jefferson Airplane’s Jorma Kaukonnen and Jack Casady. It went on to lead a much much longer life than the great Airplane. Hoppkorv is their seventh album and their last on Grunt Records. And although it has a couple of covers of Mud and Chuck Berry, this album is much much more hard classic rock than blues rock. Heavy riffs and lots of waaah-waaah! And appropriately psychedelic 3D cover art to go with the music.

Hot Tuna - Hoppkorv. Grunt, 1976, US

 

[Nikhil]

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