The Guitar of Robert Wilkins (DVD)

Publisher : Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop
Running Time : 82 minutes
Level 2/3
The accompanying PDF booklet includes lyrics and tab/standard notation transcriptions of the songs

Robert Wilkins (1896-1987) was born in Hernando, a small town in northern Mississippi, but lived his adult life in Memphis and recorded 13 sides between September 1928 and February of 1930, and an additional 4 sides in October of 1935. He had a real flair for composition and often invented new forms for his songs. Many of these have become landmark performances in the story of the Country Blues.

Robert Wilkins’ playing and singing from his 1920s recordings show us a musician with a pronounced compositional bent and an unusual imaginative gift for varying the blues structure in interesting ways. His lyrics are equally originally and profoundly poetic. His subtly powerful guitar-playing and soulful vocals combine for a sound that is unforgettable.

Titles include: I Do Blues, Jailhouse Blues, Rolling Stone, Police Sergeant Blues, That’s No Way To Get Along and I’ll Go With Her