Special thanks to Sarah Crisman for conducting this excellent interview!

Gino “Lockjohnson” Iglehart: Growing up on Camp Wisdom Soul

Interview by Sarah Crisman, October 27, 2010

Gino “Lockjohnson” Iglehart is as comforting and familiar a presence in Dallas as the bright red Pegasus anchored atop the Magnolia Hotel downtown.  Born and bred in the Gospel crowd and as part of the Camp Wisdom family – a collective of influential musicians who grew up along Camp Wisdom road in Oak Cliff.  Save for his college years spent at Southern University in Baton Rouge and a year spent commuting between New Jersey and Dallas – Lockjohnson has been a staple drummer and community supporter his entire life.  As is wont to happen to the talented cats here in Dallas, Gino was scooped up by Erykah Badu’s camp in the early days along with the rest of the Camp Wisdom crew, including N’Dambi, Geno Young, Braylon Lacy, and Grammy-winners Robert “Sput Searight, Shaun Martin, and RC Williams.  Lockjohnson played and wrote on Mama’s Gun, toured extensively with the Badu camp, and served as Erykah’s Musical Director for five years. (more…)

A few weeks ago we began our “Grow the Hell Up!” campaign. So over the next few weeks we are going to expand the series to include posts that will speak to how we feel that these goals can be achieved by record labels, artists and fans.

Well, we’re back this week with the commentary on our posted manifesto. We hope that there has been an opportunity to consider what we are proposing and with the addition of commentary the conversation /debate can begin in earnest. (more…)

A few weeks ago we began our “Grow the Hell Up!” campaign. So over the next few weeks we are going to expand the series to include posts that will speak to how we feel that these goals can be achieved by record labels, artists and fans. (more…)

I’m hoping that this series of posts where we post a few thoughts concerning seminal recordings a decade or two or three after release, will be prime for discussion.

The reason that I make this request is that often as I travel around cyberspace no matter the forum or social network the comments and conversations of remain the same: “They don’t make music like that anymore.”

Ever since I was a wee lad much to the chagrin of my mother I always questioned who are they and why do they say or do or don’t do certain things? I often reasoned that they must be very powerful. Until I realized that they=us and we (to borrow a line from “Ben”). Yes let thou criticism doth pummel down upon me from Mt. Olympus. Please realize that obviously if I use the terms “us and we” I am just a complicit as anyone else. I will expound upon this diatribe in much more detail at another date. Onto discussing Voodoo sheesh…

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