Robert Lucas

Western world Coastline vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Robert Lucas forged a route for himself within the blues globe after the launch of his much-hailed 1990 self-produced debut cassette, Over the River. Located in Very long Seaside, CA, like a single artist Lucas documented for the Audioquest label from San Clemente. He was also an associate from the famous boogie blues music group Canned Heat, performing and playing bottleneck acoustic guitar and harmonica using the group on / off beginning in 1994. Lucas was created right into a middle-class family members in Long Seaside and was 14 or 15 when he began getting significantly into blues-rock. He previously began to play electric guitar then, motivated by Jimi Hendrix, but quit onto it, concluding his hands had been too little. He began playing harmonica rather, hearing recordings by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers prior to going back to supply material, like the recordings of Small Walter Jacobs, Sonny Boy Williamson, George “Harmonica” Smith, Snooky Pryor, and Adam Cotton. Lucas started playing the Country wide Steel electric guitar at 17 whenever a co-worker on the Long Seaside Arena marketed him the device. Lucas installed with guitarist Bernie Pearl and started acquiring lessons from him. After signing up for Pearl’s music group being a harmonica participant, he surely got to play behind famous brands Big Joe Turner, George Smith, Pee Wee Creighton, Lowell Fulson, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Percy Mayfield, as well as other Western world Coastline bluesmen. He properly honed his performing and playing, with Pearl’s music group and by himself, for quite some time before developing Luke & the Locomotives in 1986. Lucas’ profession as a nationwide touring act premiered when his Over the River tape got a rave review within a Los Angeles paper. Because of this, among the Audioquest warehouse employees came to find him in a LA sushi club. The employee known as the company leader, who found hear Lucas that same evening. Lucas was a multi-talented harmonica participant, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who could perform everything: using one documenting for Audioquest, Usin’ Guy Blues, he performed single, and on another, Luke as well as the Locomotives, he performed along with his music group. The sound on most of his albums can be uncooked and gritty, with just a couple originals on each recording. Traditional blues fare like Sonny Boy Williamson’s “HELLO Small Schoolgirl” and John Lee Hooker’s “Meet up with Me in underneath” received new lease of life with Lucas’ talented hands and vocal chops. Lucas paid homage to traditional blues but additionally thoroughly crafted his personal singing and slip acoustic guitar style. These skills are on enough screen on his Audioquest albums, including Luke as well as the Locomotives, Usin’ Guy Blues, Constructed for Convenience, Layaway, and Totally Blue, all released through the ’90s, in addition to latter-day Canned Temperature albums for the Ruf and Energy 2000 brands. Robert Lucas passed away of a medication overdose in Long Seaside on November 23, 2008.