CD Review
Jimmie Lee Robinson
"Remember Me"
Analogue Production Originals (2006)
by Matt Alcott
Review date: January 2000
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Veteran blues guitarist Robinson, 68, grew up a stone's throw away from the musically bountiful Maxwell Street Market and began playing with a miscellany of street musicians as a youth in the early 1940s. He joined forces with Eddie Taylor in 1948 and soon thereafter became a regular performer on Chicago's thriving club circuit. He tells Southwest Blues that through the years he has enlisted with innumerable blues titans, including Freddie King, Elmore James, Little Walker and Magic Sam. His virtuoso guitar work graces many of their seminal recordings.
Nevertheless, his low-topped and wide-brimmed, western-style hat, string tie and spurs betray his firm foundation in Chicago's urban blues. Fans of early rockabilly will remember Robinson as "Lonesome Lee," the creator of a string of quirky Bandera singles replete with piercing falsetto wails and snappy guitar lines. On "Remember Me" Robinson continues to straddle this line between mainstream Chicago blues and country-tinged folk music. I can already hear Blind Percy, Daddy Stovepipe and Moody Jones singing their approval of the latest release from Robinson.
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