Photo: The Blues Trail: Mississippi to Maine Marker

Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 6, 2014
Caption: The Blues Trail: Mississippi to Maine Marker
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Captions: (Record label on top) J.O.B. Records, Sweet Woman from Maine, (Lockwood), Robert Jr. and his Combo, JOB 1107; (captions on right side, top to bottom) “My heart has been broken, All my love’s in vain. Yes, my heart has been broken, All my love’s in vain. Still there’s nobody suits me Like my sweet woman from Maine. — “Sweet Woman from Maine” - Robert Jr. Lockwood; Arkansas-born Robert Jr. Lockwood was strongly associated with Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2. He recorded “Sweet Woman From Maine” in Chicago in 1955 with a band featuring another heralded Mississippi, pianist Sunnyland Slim.; Paul Benjamin, former president of the national Blues Foundation’s Board of Directors, is shown above in May 2007 congratulating Eddie Shaw for winning a Blues Music Award in Memphis. Benjamin’s North Atlantic Blues Records label, launched in 1990, released CDs or DVDs by Mississippi natives Eddie and Vaan Shaw, Billy Gibson, Johnny Rawls, and Little Milton, whose last performance was at the 2005 North Atlantic Blues Festival. Two of Eddie Shaw’s CDs were recored live at the Time Out Pub in Rockland.; B.B. King, a longtime favorite in Maine, was honored by the city of Portland with a “B.B. King Day” on May 18, 2008.; Maine- based Randy Labbe produced albums by Mississippi natives Zora Young, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, and others, often utilizing studios in Portland.; Welcome to one of the many sites on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Visit us online at www.MSBluesTrail.org.
Submitted: September 15, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p285860
File Size: 3.295 Megabytes

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