Role Singer Genres Blues | Years active 1930s–1976 Albums Oakland Blues Name L. Robinson | |
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Born May 15, 1915
Brenham, Texas, United States ( 1915-05-15 ) Instruments Vocals, steel guitar, guitar, violin Associated acts A. C. Robinson, Dave Alexander, Lafayette Thomas Died September 26, 1976, Berkeley, California, United States Similar People LC Good Rockin' Robinson, Lafayette Thomas, Dave Alexander, Johnny Fuller, Juke Boy Bonner | ||
Birth name Louis Charles Robinson Also known as Good Rockin' Robinson | ||
L C Robinson - House Cleanin' Blues
L. C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson (born Louis Charles Robinson; May 15, 1915 – September 26, 1976) was an American blues singer, guitarist, and fiddle player. He played an electric steel guitar.
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Biography
Robinson was born in Brenham, Texas, United States. He learned to play guitar at nine years-old; supposedly Robinson was mentored by gospel blues singer-guitarist Blind Willie Johnson in the bottleneck style. Later in his career, he was introduced to the steel guitar by Western swing musician Leon McAuliffe, and became a noted fiddle player, who instructed Sugarcane Harris. His brother, harmonica player A. C. Robinson, collaborated with L.C. Robinson in Texas in the 1930s, and later the two performed and recorded together in a band in California in the 1940s.
Oakland Blues, a studio album Robinson, Lafayette Thomas and Dave Alexander, was released in 1968 by World Pacific Records. This was followed in 1971 by the album Ups and Downs on Arhoolie, on which Robinson was accompanied by the Muddy Waters band and Dave Alexander's trio. This material was later reissued, along with a previously unissued recording of a radio broadcast with his brother the Reverend A. C. Robinson, as Mojo In My Hand.
Robinson played at the San Francisco Blues Festival in both 1973 and 1974. He visited Sweden the following year, but his work was never widely known in Europe.
He died of a heart attack in Berkeley, California in 1976, aged 61.