According to Wikipedia."Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form. It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson. Over the years the song has become one of the most popular anthems for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics. Johnson recorded the song during his first recording session in November 1936, ...
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It just doesn't get any bluer than this. I throw down the blues gauntlet.Electrifyingly electric version in comments.
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Packing, or at least the idea of packing as a looming threat, is such a drag. Going from NOLA with the whole family up to Cincinnati to do some non-profit legal work. Mixed emotions are in order for a trip back there: good baseball, stuffier culture, family with the good and bad aspects. It should be interesting to compare our ever increasing fondness for the Crescent City with the old grounds ...
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MusicRadar.com has compiled a list of the 10 Guitars That Changed Music. According to the article by Chris Vinnicombe and Michael Leonard:"There are watershed moments in the history of popular music when the planets align, and the sense of change is palpable. Moments when the right guitar, in the hands of the right player, at precisely the right time causes a seismic shift and redraws the land...
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influenced every rock/blues guitarist around how can we ever thank you
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thank you for all the great music even if you did sell your soul to the devil, it is well appreciated by all of us who love music
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eric claptons homage album to robert is just spectacular but then again how could it not be
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he influenced everybody and if it is true that he sold his sold to the devil then we all should be grateful, maybe that's why it's called devil's music
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I've really enjoyed going see-saw lately - when it comes to music.I'm going backwards and listening to people who have so much to teach me. I've also been going forward and listening to new folks who have so much to teach me, too.Thanks to MOGgers, I become aware of lots of new/different folks... for that I am grateful.But... on to my thoughts...Robert Johnson. Gibson-playing, bluesman, recordi...
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Most of you I'm sure are at least aware of the late great bluesman Robert Johnson. But until now, in the 70 years since Johnson's controversial death in 1938, there have only been 2 photographs ever found verified as being of the blues titan in existence. Well, quite possibly, according to an article in the November issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, there has now been found, by Manhattan guit...
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Vanity Fair.com's culture and entertainment section has a very interesting article on Robert Johnson titled Portrait of a Phantom Searching for Robert Johnson. It conicals the control for the rights of Johnson's music and even his images. The article does a good job of reporting on the few know images of Johnson and how they were found and where they come from. Specifically the article tells th...
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Is this a new photo of Robert Johnson? Thanks to my friends at Rick Saunders World Yahoo Group for the tip!
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The first post of the month always features a look at songs covering every track on a famous album. Got an idea for a future pick? Leave a note in the comments!The King of the Delta Blues Singers compilation didn’t come out until 23 years after Robert Johnson’s untimely death, but was such a force in the burgeoning folk movement of the early sixties that it quickly brought his music to the mas
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