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Timberbeast/Robert Johnson

OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
Well I broke down last weekend and bought the Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson. He is pretty good but all of his songs have the same beat and sound a lot alike. I have only listened to one C.D. so Far...Auto
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  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Didn't some say that about the Stones, too . . . or was that Led Zepplin? ;-)
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    You have to appreciate the fact that he was probably playing that music on a five dollar Stella guitar.
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK Lowrider, obviously my music education is coming up short here, how about filling me in...
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  • Ms. BeastMs. Beast Member Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Timberbeast will be here soon, it is his busy week-end with work and he doesn't get on the internet much during it. He isn't ignoring you.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Dog: Fill you in on Robert Johnson or on five-dollar Stella guitars?Johnson was a black Mississippi Delta blues picker from back in the thirties. He died in 1938 at the age of 27. He's the one, as rumor has it, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for becoming a famous bluesman. It's widely accepted that he was poisoned by the owner of a club he was playing at, because he was gettin' it on with the club-owner's wife, but many people think it was really the devil calling in his marker.As for the guitar, so many of the old twenties and thirties delta blues pickers lived in poverty and certainly had no money for a decent instrument. A lot of the old recordings you hear were played on junk guitars (Stella, Vega, etc.) that had been handed down through the family. A real testament to the musical ability of guys like Johnson, John Hurt, Honeyboy Edwards and others who could make those old acoustics sound like a million bucks.
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks Lowrider! He is one I have not heard of. I got Son House, Blind Lemon, Leadbelly, and John Hooker, and it looks like I better find Robert Johnson too. Thanks again..
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oto, you gotta remember that stuff was done in a hotel room on a mono tape deck with a bottle of whiskey for wages. And if'n ya play the guitar, tell me how he's doing what he's doing!!! Been playing 30 years, and I can't do it! You also have to remember that this isn't the "end", it's "the roots" of just about any blues-based rock since, ala Clapton, Stones, early Elvis, Son House, Muddy Waters, Black Crowes, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, Foghat, Zep, etc, etc, etc.BTW, Lowrider, I've heard that it was a Sears, Roebuck guitar, which back then was probably made by EKO!!! Remember those? The "Jennings" of guitars! LOLRent "Crossroads" with Ralph Macchio for the (revised) story!! Great movie! (and great playing by Ry Cooder and Steve Vai).
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