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Robert Crotty with Me: Loren's Collection (1979​-​1987)

by Robert Crotty & Loren Connors

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD version is mini-LP style gatefold. Includes bonus CD: the first-time reissue of Crotty’s ultra rare LP "Robert Crotty Blues" and the impossible to find "Prove It!" 7-inch -- both released on Connors’ private St. Joan imprint in the late 1980s.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Robert Crotty with Me: Loren's Collection (1979-1987) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited Edition LP+CD
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LP limited to 500 copies worldwide, includes a full-color inner sleeve and a bonus CD: the first-time reissue of Crotty’s ultra-rare sole LP Robert Crotty Blues and Prove It! 7-inch -- both released on Connors’ private St. Joan imprint in the late 1980s.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Robert Crotty with Me: Loren's Collection (1979-1987) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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"I would go as far as to say that the few recordings that exist of these Robert Crotty sessions are among the finest and most beautiful blues documents of all time." -- Loren Connors

In the years 1978 to 1981, Robert Crotty would show up on Loren Connors’ doorstep in New Haven, Connecticut with his tiny, almost toy guitar. The two would then spend hours playing acoustic blues, the likes of which was absolutely staggering in its truthfulness.

"Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987)" is the first anthology of the late bluesman’s work, as selected by his former playing partner. These are the unheard tapes of Crotty and Connors communing with the spirits of Delta and County Blues through their own revisions of standards and tingle-inducing improvisations. These also some of the legendary Connors' earliest available recordings showing the development of iconoclast guitar style and vocal moan.

Crotty was a New Haven lifer and linchpin of the region’s blues scene yet, he never achieved much recognition outside local bars and house parties -- until now. The album features never before heard recordings, unseen photos, liner notes by Connors and Crotty’s brother

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released December 8, 2017

Robert Crotty, acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Loren Connors, acoustic guitar, backing vocals

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Loren Connors Brooklyn, New York

Loren Connors has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music embraces the aesthetics of blues, Irish airs, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms. Connors, who names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as his most important influence, also creates evocative print work that arise from the aesthetics of his music. ... more

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