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Hobo Blues· Robert Lowery

A Good Man Is Hard To Find 1994 Hello out there blues lovers. For the past ten years I have been building a catalogue of releases by artists as diverse as Danny Barker and Guitar Slim Jr. Each and every production has been special to me. This is the first country blues recording on the Orleans label and I'd like to tell you how it came to be. In the Spring of 1988 I was working at the New Orleans branch of Tower Records. It was here that I Encountered Ice Cube Slim who runs a booking agency in Santa Cruz, California, called Bon Ton West. He manages the blues diva Katie Webster and had brought in some of her records during the Jazz and Heritage Festival. We got to talking about Santa Cruz and the group of blues freaks loosely based around radio station KUSP (a station equipped with two 78 rpm turntables and collectors who frequently air rare recordings). I was intrigued, as I had fond memories of Santa Cruz from childhood visits there. That very summer my wife and I headed West in search of a better life, just as Robert Lowery had done thirty years earlier. I was introduced to Robert by a guitar player named Boogie Bruce Engelhardt who took me to a coffee house (shades of Lightnin' Hopkins!) where throngs of college students from the UC Santa Cruz campus would congregate to listen to Mr. Lowery's down home blues. A native of Arkansas, Robert Lowery is the genuine article and although he was just a child of five when Robert Johnson was recording those precious tracks in San Antonio, Texas, he is definitely a link on the same chain. This was a major country blues talent who had never been recorded by Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz. I was amazed