“Bob Lenox presents a rare synthesis of ‘Vanguard’ blues-folk music passed down from the seventies with a contemporary mystical aspect after an extended break which led him to Berlin, where he lives today. A dissenting child in the United-States and an artist in the bubbling post-war ambience of New York, at an early age Bob Lenox was greatly esteemed by the biggest names in music, such as Tina and Ike Turner, Joe Cocker, Charles Mingus and Jimi Hendrix in the late sixties. The accursed poet couldn’t escape from the dire fate of dissenting artists of the period, and went into a long exile in the late seventies. Elias Bellouti and Tony Baillargeat met Bob Lenox in Berlin in 2004 and persuaded him to record this album in which the artist goes to the source of his creativity and soul in order to offer twelve tracks of rare potency, placing Bob Lenox in the front line of America’s best blues and folk musicians: pioneers such as Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry and Hank Williams, and the latest idols – Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash – in a style which reminds us of Calvin Russell and even Tom Waits.” Patrick Fremeaux & Benjamin Goldenstein
