Robert Lighthouse     9/20, 10/3, 10/16  

Robert Lighthouse, a native of Sweden, has been described by reviewers as a "master of the Delta blues." He first came to the United States at the age of 18, determined to learn more about the music he loves -- Mississippi Delta Blues. For eight years he traveled around the country visiting blues Meccas like Chicago's famed Maxwell Street and New Orleans, the cradle of the blues. He toured Belgium and Holland with the Charlie Sayles Band and then landed his own steady gig at City Blues Cafe in D.C. Lighthouse has represented the DC area at the Blues Foundation International Blues Competition twice, once with his band and once as a solo. His critically acclaimed debut CD, "Drive-Thru Love", was released in 1998. Of his long awaited follow up, "Deep Down in the Mud," released in the summer of 2007, Washington Post reporter Mike Joyce wrote that the new CD salutes "the likes of Robert Johnson, Dr. Ross, Elmore James, R.L. Burnside, Magic Sam, Muddy Waters, George Clinton and Jimi Hendrix. That's a tall order, to be sure, but Lighthouse gets the job done...... Like John Hammond, Lighthouse gets a lot of mileage out of his voice, guitar and harmonica, especially when he's celebrating country blues traditions with a percussive attack."