An American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter amongst the most famous of Delta blues musicians; ranked fifth in Rolling Stone's list of Greatest Guitari… read more. Similar Artists Play all. Trending Tracks 1. Friday 16 July Saturday 17 July Sunday 18 July Monday 19 July Tuesday 20 July Wednesday 21 July Thursday 22 July Friday 23 July Saturday 24 July Sunday 25 July Monday 26 July Tuesday 27 July Wednesday 28 July Thursday 29 July Friday 30 July Saturday 31 July Sunday 1 August Monday 2 August Tuesday 3 August Wednesday 4 August Thursday 5 August Friday 6 August Saturday 7 August Sunday 8 August Monday 9 August Tuesday 10 August Wednesday 11 August Thursday 12 August Friday 13 August Saturday 14 August Sunday 15 August Monday 16 August Tuesday 17 August Wednesday 18 August Thursday 19 August Friday 20 August Saturday 21 August Sunday 22 August Monday 23 August Tuesday 24 August Wednesday 25 August Thursday 26 August Friday 27 August Saturday 28 August Sunday 29 August Monday 30 August Tuesday 31 August Wednesday 1 September Thursday 2 September Friday 3 September Saturday 4 September Sunday 5 September Monday 6 September Tuesday 7 September Wednesday 8 September Thursday 9 September Friday 10 September Saturday 11 September Sunday 12 September Monday 13 September Tuesday 14 September Wednesday 15 September Thursday 16 September Friday 17 September Saturday 18 September Sunday 19 September Monday 20 September Tuesday 21 September Wednesday 22 September Thursday 23 September Friday 24 September On those days, Robert Johnson was recording in Texas.
He wrote and recorded 29 songs total. There were a couple of 78s put out during his lifetime, none of which was any big deal at the time. He disappeared into an unmarked grave, little known until Columbia put out the first LP record of Robert Johnson in His recordings have since been far more widely heard than in his lifetime, and his songs covered many times.
Probably half his songs might reasonably now be considered standards. A lot of rock musicians have sang his songs, and done some good at it. Certainly Led Zeppelin and the Stones have made much fancier and technically better recordings, with fine artistic impact and feeling.
Robert Johnson was a great songwriter. But none of this can have quite the impact of Johnson's original recordings. He came from a different time and place, a much scarier world than anything Jimmy Page ever knew. Johnson was a lost soul, a bastard son of a black woman born under Jim Crow.
But even the Klan wasn't scary enough to make it onto Robert Johnson's radar screen. Beyond any mortal evil, Robert Johnson despaired for his immortal soul. If you're open and fully receiving his signals, his records can put the fear of God into you. It's sometimes hard to judge an artist's intent, but when Robert Johnson sang "Hellhound on My Trail" it seems very real, like he's seriously thinking that the dark lord has sent minions to torment him.
When he sings in "Me and the Devil Blues" saying "Hello Satan, I believe it's time to go," it sounds like he's matter of factly talking to Lucifer. Whatever your personal religious beliefs, this was serious paranoia, dread, fear and guilt coming straight out of a tormented man's soul. Given his huge modern reputation, some folk find Robert Johnson less amazing than they expect when they actually listen to him. Partially that's because almost anything so highly touted will have trouble living up to it's rep.
Partly though, it's from expecting everything to sound like big homogenized, pasteurized modern studio records, when Robert Johnson was just one man and an acoustic guitar.
One more possible complicating factor comes from a simple question of the playback speed of his recordings. From Wikipedia :. Some musicians have opined that the recordings run too fast.
Johnson mainly used open tunings like open A and open E, and often used a capo to change the pitch of the song. This means that some passages would be played very high upon the neck of the guitar, which would make them very difficult to execute, or in some cases impossible to play at all for example, the intro of "Walkin' Blues, which should be played on the 16th fret of a fret-to-the-body-guitar. We not only have hits Bollywood songs of Robert Johnson but also all hit regional songs on Hungama Music.
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