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Hey All You Robert Johnson Fans...

Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2002 in General Discussion
So glad to hear from other Robert Johnson fans. I have some dirt from his gravesite and some from the crossroads (highways 61 and 49)in little bottles on top of my A/V system. Does that qualify me as a fan or a nut-case? I personally think it works better than thick voo-doo speaker wires.What do you think? By the way,you need to buy "Hellhounds On My Trail" on DVD.It is part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Music Masters series.Numerous great artists doing his songs. I want to marry Rory Block and sit around all day while she plays the blues!! Well,one can dream,can't one?
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are you logged in to the correct forum? I have no idea what you just said. Who are these people?
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right place!!! I am responding to the music thread "who would you have perform for you" several posters admired Robert Johnson..the greatist blues song writer who ever lived!! Those people would agree. Maybe you need to listen to him yourself and learn what they and I know.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am WAY out of your league, I havent been reading that thread, sorry if it was insulting, it just seemed from out of left field if you wernt tuned into that thread I suppose.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oops,sorry,it was "and the band played on" by clouder
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No problem robsguns...just glad to find other blues fans among gun people..refreshing!! nice to meet you all,I am new here and get confused with threads and methods sometimes!
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have never heard of Robert Johnson before the Music Post, but I am going to get one of his albums and study up on him since everyone says he is so cool..OTO Nice Handle Bushy AR. Welcome!
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  • Hans GrueberHans Grueber Member Posts: 244 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its so very sad that on one had heard of Robert Johnson. The Blues is a really obscure object in the minds of most so -called music people. However SRV makes it all a mute point. Granted his inspirations were the ultimate blues giants of their era, he really takes their element of the blues and rips a new......excuse me makes a well needed space(so to speak) in the realm of that art. and as far as I'm concerned SRV is the last real Blues musician to make a real contribution to the art to this date.
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  • Hans GrueberHans Grueber Member Posts: 244 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its so very sad that on one had heard of Robert Johnson. The Blues is a really obscure object in the minds of most so -called music people. However SRV makes it all a mute point. Granted his inspirations were the ultimate blues giants of their era, he really takes their element of the blues and rips a new......excuse me makes a well needed space(so to speak) in the realm of that art. and as far as I'm concerned SRV is the last real Blues musician to make a real contribution to the art to this date.
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  • boogerbooger Member Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hans Gruber, try some Buddy Guy or maybe you have?robsguns, Otoman et. all, If you guys watched the "O'Brother Where Art Thou" movie the black dude they picked up that played the guitar was supposed to be Robert Johnson.Clarksdale, MS. has good blues and duck hunting.
    Them ducks is wary.
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    True,true hans...SRV was finally hitting his stride after getting clean and sober..shame about that...however,other great artists are keeping the flame alive.Have you ever heard Rory Block? She is a multible W.C. Handy award winning blues artist.Buddy Guy's latest "Sweet Tea" should win him the grammy he deserves.The list goes on and on...Look for new artists on the Blind Pig and Alligator labels...be worth your while I think.
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Booger...I think the artist who was supposed to be R.J. in that movie was Guy Davis...he is one of the many talented people on the DVD "Hellhounds On My Trail"...really good to my ears!
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You got to love a guy that can title a song "32-20 Blues"WOODS
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "She got a .38 Special but I believe it's most too light"...Let's not forget "Forty Four" by Chester Burnett done by so many artists.."wore my forty four so long it made my shoulder hurt"
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SRV ain't the only guy, as great as he was. BB King is still around, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert King, Robert Cray, John Lee Hooker just passed away a few months back...lotsa guys are still playing da blues (But Kenny Wayne Shepard is a poser). There's a radio show called "House of Blues" which I get up north at my hunting shack, hosted by "Elwood Blues" (Dan Aykroyd). He plays some great stuff!!!! Old and new!Dirt from RJ's grave?? Better watch those stones in your passway, bro, you might be haunted!!!
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Hey beast, you're not saying Albert and Freddie King are still alive, are you? Those guys have been dead for a good while.I didn't join in the music discussion, but wish that I had. I'm a huge blues fan and have read a lot about Robert Johnson. All those old Delta players from the twenties and thirties were the real deal. Johnson, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, etc.Just went to see Buddy Guy last Wednesday night. The show wasn't very good. Very little music and too much B.S. and story-telling. It was like a stand-up comedy routine with a little bit of guitar playing thrown in. Guy's band was damn good, though.
    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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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SSGT Roberts....don't feel bad. I thought this guy Johnson might be some famous NASCAR driver who wrapped himself around a telephone pole driving moonshine! Turns out he's someone else entirely....amazing the stuff you learn on this forum. Beach
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