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Although Bobby Lowell refuses to put an exact
date on his musical beginnings, he is roost probably
Lincoln's first rock'n'roller. ... ( ,
Irryouth, Lowe3 attar, tied Cacrcd; Heart Cched
(as a non-Catholic) and fell in with a black kid who
was an excellent piardat and similarly ostracised
old Railroadmen's Club on 10th, and a key-ineir.bsrs
black nijht club located where the downtown Den
nis now stand3. Still in his early teens, Bcbby gat hii
first tastC3 cf cold beer and hot rhythm and Elucs.
A-Boogie Boy
big time music
few bucks," Lowell said. "Everything was country
then. That was when Boxcar Willie was still Marty
Martin. I knew Marty pretty good." i
Alocal scout for a national telethon heard Lowell
:' In one oft! bziCCSjol .ilJ; I'm: ill iXcf-prA A
"during cn3cf the locally-inserted late-nhhtse
' ments, called stretchers.
SKIS sm Vinson
Selling neivrpcperi-and shir.ir.3 shoes around
North -Ninth and ICth streets frep the ce cf 1 1 or
1 2 also provided Lowell r.ith mus'ieal mSuences and
contacts. One cf thera was a tsp dancer and musi-
rVTou know thb bi. theyre'doir4 now called trcak
dancing"? Tell, in those dzjs the blacks used to tap
dance . .." Lorc'J saii.'One would tap dance, then
the cther'd try and tap dance, and they'd ju;t try to
outdo each ether. I hur.3 around him (Dai3) a lot
and he Mnda took to me . . . liked the way I played
piano and ss&s, mostly blues." " ' "; ' ;
. Lowell started his first frer at r,14 rr.d plzyed
"rcllin blues" in the two Cz"..j I12 firequer.tcd around
T Street At about that tir..:' r :::!: tr.d rail cirr.e cut,
"It was like 3:45 in the morning-Lowell recalled.
"We went out and did a couple Elvi3 tunes and some
old standbys, you know, three-chord stuff, and the
-reception wa3 unreal Te phctics rt-rted lihtin'
The rlciit !.-":', Li 3 'h V.w:;.r;, v.o had s sir.r'J T-J
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murie I hadn't found IztjzzizAx:: czrrrirrd
to see hew many really coed p-r :;ir. 3 tl::re
. cue new in Lm.cczt ,
Ca C.3 :r;-i!:T'- ttrzCi 1 1 il e
gup today hsvs a fctU cf 5 lat tr. : 12: Z'.t
'em electrcnically than r;e had. ZiC: Li L. - -3 t
dap you had to have raw talent . . . we CZt
have buttons you cculi push cn the fieer to
ma!:e Cdrc Quiver -"d t.1 that stu.T. irav., if
you c:t f-o r.ci.'T, you're t.'l r:':At. Then, pcp 2
war.tei to hrrr what ycu're saj-in, what ycu re
plrLi', . . . net to tr!:e cnjlhrnj away frcn
tttzz hp r.c;7 . . . tir. as cl;ar2.'
tl3 (cfths Crc? Deleters) pt a h;-v3 .tal
ent If he ever C"t3 it m 1L-.3 . . . Uhf finds that .
nctch, he's cur.a be scnaatnaL Ls s ct t-:Lt
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come b a.. J ta-3 axcr. erj fecr
teen CI.!; l a" DJ Keren r4l:51 ; c:n, 7l.o ha i a die.
cn KTCl cr" J "LtctL : 1 : J t? -i recerd r r: .1
the :rri 57C3 craar " Lc :li raid." ,
The" group, new. tecTvr.a3 the-. ilock-A-Bocie .
Bop, rcc-rdrd "V.'hat You Do To He," a cdypzo-bh
soni4 arc re calao wai i: -aeecrdin3 Lowell, and
on the C J CZz "Utsi-ZI, , Ey." The record was
picked rp by CD stations Li 0 states, moved to
numb'r 1 1 the (than regional) pop charts, and
zt tl 3 L da r..a.-.n in LZboard I'aazine., ; "
At th:t tl'T.e, ILe ccfr.bo ccnrlited cf Lov.xll cn
piano, guar r r J vzzz'z; Jimmy Akin cn lead guitar;
Will Vr.r :r c :t iv:;hr.i guitar and Vera Beear.er
cn br" ".M-'.-i C. 2 crJy ether criinrJ r.eek-A-Bse"
t 1 . 7 r "I I.i t! 3 Iinccln area, and can ceca-
. r.d town ticIJLri the 1 -cries.
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Eea!dn I?:!;I:y Lowell aj Ls leaded at the
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