Robbie was also a sideman on a couple of early albums by John Hammond Jr….So Many Roads has him on lead guitar with Mike Bloomfield on piano! I met JH Jr. years later and asked him how he could pass on Bloomer as lead, and he said “At that time Robbie was the better player”(!). He also was on I Can Tell, which has him playing the signature Elmore James riff on Strat, no slide, but to devastating effect, on ‘Coming Home’. No one ever did it better.
As a songwriter, if he only wrote ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ he’d be a star. But he penned dozens of gems. R.I.P., a Native American treasure.
