Colors …
This is a Voyage into Sound
inst. of change [ELECTRIC GUITAR]
the players
THE INSTRUMENTS OF NOISE.
Robert Johnson
Running With The Devil
“Cross Road Blues”
Robert Johnson
1936 — Original (Only) Recordings
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1929-1939 — Decade of Depression
BLUE: THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN ( 1.)
BLUE: CROSSROADS ( 2.)
ROBERT JOHNSON ORIGINAL BLUESMAN
ROBERT JOHNSON GRAPHIC BLUES
DEVIL MUSIC
Wayward Son
Robert Johnson was barely known when he died in 1938, but when the 29 songs he recorded in 1936 and 1937 were released in 1961 on a record called King of the Delta Blues Singers. Immediately and Universally accepted as Gospel by the guitarists and songwriters who were writing the next, electrified chapter in the Rock N Roll Book. Influential believers included the social poet Bob Dylan and all the Yardbirds guitarists:
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck.
“The vibrations from the loudspeaker made my hair stand up. The stabbing sounds could almost break a window.”
— Bob Dylan
After hearing King of the Delta Blues Singers for the first time.
Robert Johnson’s ‘King of the Delta Blues Singers‘
“Ramblin’ on My Mind” / “Traveling Riverside Blues”
Eric Clapton 
Robert Johnson to me is the most important blues musician who ever lived.” He recorded several of Johnson’s songs as well as an entire tribute album, Me and Mr. Johnson (2004). Clapton feels that rather than trying to recreate Johnson’s originals, “I was trying to extract as much emotional content from it as I could, while respecting the form at the same time.”
Bob Dylan In about 1964 and ’65, I probably used about five or six of Robert Johnson’s blues song forms, too, unconsciously, but more on the lyrical imagery side of things. If I hadn’t heard the Robert Johnson record when I did, there probably would have been hundreds of lines of mine that would have been shut down — that I wouldn’t have felt free enough or upraised enough to write. [His] code of language was like nothing I’d heard before or since.”
Robert Plant A lot of English musicians were very fired up by Robert Johnson [to] whom we all owe more or less our existence, I guess, in some way.” Led Zeppelin recorded “TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BLUES” and quoted some of Johnson’s lyrics in “THE LEMON SONG.“
Keith Richards I’ve never heard anybody before or since use the [blues] form and bend it so much to make it work for himself … he came out with such compelling themes [and] just the way they were treated, apart from the music and the performance, [was appealing].” The Rolling Stones recorded “Love in Vain” and “Stop Breaking Down.”
Johnny Winter Robert Johnson knocked me out—he was a genius. [He and Son House] both were big influences on my acoustic slide playing.” He recorded “Dust My Broom” with additional guitar by Derek Trucks.
“Crossroads”
Eric Clapton
1975 — E.C. Was Here
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