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Instruments
  
Guitar, vocals

Role
  
Guitarist

Years active
  
1980s-present

Genres
  
Blues

Website
  
Official website

Record label
  
Atlantic Records

Name
  
Sherman Robertson


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Born
  
October 27, 1948 (age 75) Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, United States (
1948-10-27
)

Occupation(s)
  
Guitarist, singer, songwriter

Labels
  
Atlantic/Code Blue Records, Sledgehammer Blues/AudioQuest Music, various

Albums
  
Guitar Man - Live, Here And Now, I'm the Man, Going Back Home

Similar People
  
Bruce Katz Band, Terry Evans, Mighty Sam McClain, Lee McBee, BB & The Blues Shacks

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Sherman Robertson (born October 27, 1948, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, United States) is an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer, who has been described as "one part zydeco, one part swamp blues, one part electric blues and one part classic rhythm and blues."

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Biography

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Robertson was born in Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. At the age of 13, he watched a performance on television by Hank Williams. Duly inspired and equipped with a cheap guitar purchased by his father, he started playing the songs previously performed by Freddie King and Floyd London. As he lived close to the Duke/Peacock recording studio, Robertson took the opportunity to acquaint himself with some of the musicians who recorded there. At the same time, in his late teens, Robertson played in a band in various bars of his Fifth Ward, Houston neighborhood.

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In 1982, Clifton Chenier heard Robertson's band playing at the Crosstown Blues Festival. Robertson moved back to Louisiana, learned to play slide guitar, and toured for several years in the 1980s with Chenier. Robertson contributed to his Live At The (1982) and San Francisco Blues Festival (1985) albums. After Chenier's death, Robertson played with Rockin' Dopsie, appearing on his Crowned Prince Of Zydeco album (1986), and Terrance Simien & the Mallet Playboys, before going solo.

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In addition, Robertson's guitar work appeared on Paul Simon's Graceland album, and he was on the bill at the 1994 Notodden Blues Festival.

Robertson's I'm the Man (1994) was the first release on the Code Blue label. It was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award. Robertson's follow-up, Here & Now (1995), included his cover of the Tracy Nelson song "Here & Now". However the record label folded and Robertson re-appeared in 1998 on the independent label, Audioquest, with his next offering, Going Back Home. In November 2005 he released Guitar Man - Live with his new backing band, BluesMove.

In 2008, Robertson and BluesMove played at the Harvest Time Blues festival in Monaghan, Ireland. In 2011, Robertson and BluesMove appeared at the Rhythm Festival in Bedfordshire, England.

In 2012, a proposed concert in Gaildorf, Germany, was cancelled after Robertson suffered a stroke.

Discography

  • I'm the Man (1994) - Atlantic/Code Blue Records
  • Here & Now (1996) - Atlantic/Code Blue Records
  • Going Back Home (1998) - Sledgehammer Blues (formerly AudioQuest Music)
  • Guitar Man - Live (2005) - Movin Records
  • References

    Sherman Robertson Wikipedia