Thats the kind of Image I dont like people to have of Robert Johnson ^
He wasen't even very successful atall until years after his death, while he was alive the only things he did to promote him self was to do one radio broadcast and recorded once.
The legend of Robert Johnson "Selling his soul to the devil" is actually wrong, it was said that Tommy Johnson a slightly different delta blues musician much along the lines of Ishman Bracey than RJ sold his soul (and he boasted of this)
Some credit this muddle to Son House who said that Robert Johnson must have sold his soul to get such music tallent in reference to the speed in which he learned how to play guitar, not literally that he went out to a crossroads.
Robert Johnson was in no way the Musical prodigy he is made out to be, though he was good I can list a whole bunch of others with equal or more tallent than RJ: Bo Carter, Sam Collins, Ishman Bracey, King Solomon Hill, Sylvester Weaver etc. And there is the fact that alot of RJ's songs are covers/adaptions. (32-20 blues and Come on in my kitchen to name a few)
@FackingHell (Wikipedia) Eric Clapton has called Robert Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived" and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Plant have cited both Johnson's lyrics and musicianship as key influences on their own work.
@FackingHell (Wikipedia) Eric Clapton has called Robert Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived" and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Plant have cited both Johnson's lyrics and musicianship as key influences on their own work.
@FackingHell the art of the deal my friend. If Johnson did make a deal with the devil, it played out as such. Ol' Scratch kept to his word, Robert Johnson got the success he was promised, after he passed of course. He who sups with the devil better have a long spoon.
@FackingHell the art of the deal my friend. If Johnson did make a deal with the devil, it played out as such. Ol' Scratch kept to his word, Robert Johnson got the success he was promised, after he passed of course. He who sups with the devil better have a long spoon.
Thats the kind of Image I dont like people to have of Robert Johnson ^
He wasen't even very successful atall until years after his death, while he was alive the only things he did to promote him self was to do one radio broadcast and recorded once.
The legend of Robert Johnson "Selling his soul to the devil" is actually wrong, it was said that Tommy Johnson a slightly different delta blues musician much along the lines of Ishman Bracey than RJ sold his soul (and he boasted of this)
Some credit this muddle to Son House who said that Robert Johnson must have sold his soul to get such music tallent in reference to the speed in which he learned how to play guitar, not literally that he went out to a crossroads.
Robert Johnson was in no way the Musical prodigy he is made out to be, though he was good I can list a whole bunch of others with equal or more tallent than RJ: Bo Carter, Sam Collins, Ishman Bracey, King Solomon Hill, Sylvester Weaver etc. And there is the fact that alot of RJ's songs are covers/adaptions. (32-20 blues and Come on in my kitchen to name a few)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETELORdwmJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETELORdwmJA
Watch this and tell me Robert Johnson isn't a musical prodigy. Because if you do, you obviously know more about guitar than Eric Clapton. X_X
Watch this and tell me Robert Johnson isn't a musical prodigy. Because if you do, you obviously know more about guitar than Eric Clapton. X_X
@FackingHell (Wikipedia) Eric Clapton has called Robert Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived" and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Plant have cited both Johnson's lyrics and musicianship as key influences on their own work.
@FackingHell (Wikipedia) Eric Clapton has called Robert Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived" and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Plant have cited both Johnson's lyrics and musicianship as key influences on their own work.
@FackingHell the art of the deal my friend. If Johnson did make a deal with the devil, it played out as such. Ol' Scratch kept to his word, Robert Johnson got the success he was promised, after he passed of course. He who sups with the devil better have a long spoon.
@FackingHell the art of the deal my friend. If Johnson did make a deal with the devil, it played out as such. Ol' Scratch kept to his word, Robert Johnson got the success he was promised, after he passed of course. He who sups with the devil better have a long spoon.