(Blues) VA - Mississippi Blues 1935 - 1951(Robert Petway,Robert J.Lockwood,Otto Virgial)(Wolf Rec.WBCD 005) - 1991, APE (image+.cue) lossless

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Robert Petway
О загадочном блюзмене по имени Роберт Петуэй (Robert Petway) известно, что в начале 30-х гг. он жил в Гринвуде (Greenwood), штат Миссиссиппи, и вместе со своим земляком Томми МакКленнаном (Tommy McClennan), с которым у него сложился редкой слаженности дуэт, к которому иногда примыкал Дэвид “Ханибой” Эдвардс (David Honeyboy Edwards), часто выступал на улицах, а также на вечеринках и танцах в сельских окрестностях Гринвуда, Итта Бини (Itta Bene), Язу Сити (Yazoo City) и других местечек, лежащих вдоль 49-го шоссе (Higway 49). Впоследствии Петуэй, подобно многим чернокожим Юга США, переехал жить в Чикаго. Дальнейшая судьба его туманна, однако Эдвардс еще в начале 70-х гг. был уверен, что Петуэй по-прежнему жив и проживает на северной окраине Чикаго.
Стиль исполнения, характерный для Петуэя, во многом напоминает коммерчески более успешную манеру МакКленнана, хотя, по свидетельству близко знавшего из обоих Эдвардса, Петуэй играл с большим, нежели МакКленнан, напором и беглостью. Именно к наследию Петуэя принадлежит оригинальная исчерпывающая версия знаменитого “Catfish Blues”, хотя современники утверждали, что эта композиция была одним из ударных номеров гринвудского репертуара именно МакКленнана. Так или иначе, авторство этого блюза по всей видимости нельзя приписать ни тому, ни другому; говорили, что, например, Скип Джеймс (Skip James) исполнял его еще в 20-е гг. В интерпретации Петуэя эта композиция звучит как динамичный одноаккордный блюз, в котором замечательно органично слиты характерный вокал и захватывающий, уникальный перкуссионный аккомпанемент “национальной стальной” гитары. Судьба оказалась более милосердной к “Сatfish Blues”, нежели к впервые записавшему его артисту: десятилетие спустя этот номер малоизвестного блюзмена послужил основой для бессмертного хита Мадди Уотерса (Muddy Waters), который получил название “Rolling Stone” и навсегда вошел в золотой фонд блюза и историю музыки XX века.
По материалам Стивена Колта (Stephen Calt) и Джона Миллера (John Miller) из буклета CD “Lonesome Road Blues: 15 Years in the Mississippi Delta 1926 - 1941” Yazoo 1038 и Жана Бюзелена (Jean Buzelin) из буклета CD “Tommy McClennan & Robert Petway: A Guitar King 1939 - 1942”, перевод и изложение © М. Бирюков
Robert Lockwood, Jr
Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American blues guitarist who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime collaborator with Sonny Boy Williamson II, and for his work in the mid 1950s with Little Walter Jacobs.
Robert Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, a hamlet west of Helena, Arkansas. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of 8. The famous bluesman Robert Johnson lived with Lockwood's mother for 10 years off and on after his parents' divorce. Lockwood learned from Johnson not only how to play guitar, but timing and stage presence as well. Because of his personal and professional association with the music of Robert Johnson, he became known as "Robert Junior" Lockwood, a nickname by which he was known among fellow musicians for the rest of his life, although he later frequently professed his dislike for this appellation.
By age 15, Lockwood was playing professionally at parties in the Helena area. He often played with his quasi-stepfather figure, Robert Johnson, also occasionally with Rice Miller (Sonny Boy Williamson II) or Johnny Shines. Lockwood played at fish fries, juke joints, and street corners throughout the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s. An anecdote from Lockwood's website claims that on one occasion Robert Johnson played on one side of the Sunflower River, while Lockwood played on the other, with the people of Clarksdale, Mississippi milling about the bridge, supposedly unable to tell which guitarist was the real Robert Johnson.
Lockwood played with Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) in the Clarksdale, Mississippi area in 1938 and 1939. He also played with Howlin' Wolf and others in Memphis, Tennessee around 1938. From 1939 to 1940 he split his time playing in St. Louis, Missouri, Chicago, Illinois and Helena.
In 1941, Lockwood made his first recordings with Doctor Clayton for the Bluebird label in Aurora, Illinois. During these same sessions, he also recorded the four songs which were released as the first two singles under his own name, which were early versions of his staple repertoire. These recordings were released as 78s on Bluebird Records.
Also in 1941, Lockwood and Williamson were featured on the first King Biscuit Time radio program on KFFA in Helena. For several years in the early 1940s the pair played together in and around Helena and continued to be associated with King Biscuit Time. From about 1944 to 1949 Lockwood played in West Memphis, Arkansas, St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis. Lockwood was an early influence of B. B. King and played with King's band during his early career in Memphis.
In 1950 Lockwood settled in Chicago. In 1954 he replaced Louis Myers as guitarist in Little Walter's band, and played on Walter's #1 hit record "My Babe" in 1955. He left Little Walter's band shortly thereafter, and in the late '50s recorded several sessions with Sonny Boy Williamson II for Chess Records, sessions which also included Willie Dixon and Otis Spann. Lockwood also performed and/or recorded with Sunnyland Slim, Eddie Boyd, and Muddy Waters among others.
In 1961 Lockwood moved with his wife to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio where he resided until his death. In the early 1960s, as "Bob Lockwood, Jr., and Combo," he had a regular gig at Loving's Grill, located at 8426 Hough Avenue. In the 1970s through the 1990s, he performed regularly with his band the "All Stars" at numerous local venues, including Pirate's Cove, The Euclid Tavern, and Peabody's. For the last few years of his career, Lockwood played at Cleveland's Fat Fish Blue (corner of Prospect and Ontario, downtown Cleveland) every Wednesday night at 8 p.m.; the "All Stars" have continued to perform there after his death.
His Cleveland period also saw the release of some of his most noteworthy studio recordings as a band leader, first with a pair of albums playing solo and with his band of the time on the Trix Records label, and then with Johnny Shines for two LP's on the Rounder label. The latter showed both men determinedly playing the music they were interested in, rather than the familiar requests of the blues audience - an attitude Lockwood maintained. Although he seldom performed without his band, he also recorded a solo album of his own material, along with a few Robert Johnson standards, under the title Plays Robert and Robert. Lockwood has dealt briskly, sometimes brusquely, with the Johnson legend. It's typical that when he gave one of his infrequent album recitals of Johnson songs, for Plays Robert and Robert (1983), he puckishly chose to use a 12-string guitar.
In 2004, Lockwood appeared at Eric Clapton's first Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, Texas. A live recording with three other blues musicians in Dallas in October 2004 – Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas – was awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album. or the late Henry Townsend and Robert Lockwood Jr. It was the first Grammy win for the musicians. His last known recording session was carried out at Ante Up Audio studios in Cleveland; where he performed on the album The Way Things Go, with long time collaborator Cleveland Fats for Honeybee Entertainment.
Lockwood died at the age of 91 in Cleveland, having earlier suffered a cerebral aneurysm and a stroke. Lockwood is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

A sensational collection of Mississippi blues featuring the complete recordings of Otto Virgial and Robert Petway and the complete pre-war recordings of Robert Lockwood along with his 1951 session. Virgial, recorded in 1935, is an utterly obscure but exceptional performer with an powerful vocal style and intensely rhythmic guitar style which strongly suggests that he is from the Delta. Petway is an exciting Mississippi bluesman with a style very much like his friend Tommy McClennan with a powerful gravelly voiced, energetic guitar work on his steel bodied National and spoken asides and exclamations. The 14 tracks here are from 1941 and '42 and represent his entire output including his classic recording of the Mississippi blues standard Catfish. The four sides from '41 by Lockwood (his first) show the influence of his stepfather Robert Johnson overlaid with jazz elements and are all utterly sensational - I'm Gonna Train My Baby has some novel lyrics ("I'm Gonna Train My Baby To Shoot A Pistol Like A Man/ If She Can't Trip the Trigger Than She Cannot Be In My Gang"!) and Little Boy Blue features some lovely single string slide guitar. The two '51 sides with Sunnyland Slim are fine versions of I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole and Dust My Broom. Every track on this disc is a gem, sound is generally good and there are informative notes by Alan Balfour.