L.C. " GOOD ROCKIN " ROBINSON

L. C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson (15 de mayo de 1915 - 26 de septiembre de 1976)1​ fue un cantante, violinista y guitarrista de blues estadounidense. Es fundamentalmente conocido por sus interpretaciones con steel guitar.2​

Robinson nació en la localidad de Brenham, Texas. Aprendió a tocar la guitarra a la edad de nueve años y supuestamente fue introducido en el uso de la técnica conocida como "bottleneck style" por el guitarrista Blind Willie Johnson.3​ Posteriormente comenzó a tocar la steel guitar de la mano del músico de Western swing, Leon McAuliffe, y el violín gracias a Sugarcane Harris. Su hermano, el armonicista A. C. Robinson, colaboró con L.C. Robinson en sus inicios en Texas en los años 30 y posteriormente grabaron juntos con una banda de California en los 40.4​

En 1968, cinco temas interpretados por  Robinson fueron incluidos en el recopilarorio Oakland Blues, su primer álbum de estudio en solitario, compartido con Lafayette Thomas y Dave Alexander, publicado por World Pacific Records. En 1971 publicó Ups and Downs con Arhoolie Records, donde Robinson se hizo acompañar por al banda de Muddy Waters y el Dave Alexander's trio. Este material fue reeditado posteriormente, junto con una grabación inedita de una emisión de radio con su hermano el reverendo A. C. Robinson, bajo el título de Mojo In My Hand.5​

Robinson actuó en el Festival de Blues de San Francisco en 1973 y 1974.

Falleció a consecuencia de un infarto en Berkeley, California en 1976, a los 61 años de edad.6​7​

L. C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson (born Louis Charles Robinson; May 13, 1914 – September 26, 1976)was an American blues singer, guitarist, and fiddle player. He played an electric steel guitar.

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.

L.C. "Good Rockin "Robinson, Bukka White, Dave Alexander.