(Louis Charles Robinson)
(3CD)
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.[3]
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.