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Listen to Alexis Korner's Tribute to Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson The first REAL country bluesman
I got into. I found Chicago blues through the Rolling Stones and others
(as did most Brits in the '60s). I credit the Rolling Stones because
I saw them (for the first time) in '64 and they were magnificent. From
them I graduated to Robert Johnson et al. I bought the Robert Johnson
LP and, WOW, nobody even knew exactly when he was born or when he died!
Things have moved on since then and, apparently, Robert being a bit
of a womaniser, he got too friendly with the wife of a local juke joint
owner and was given a bottle of whiskey with the seal broken. You've
guessed it, he drank it and never sang again (or got friendly with another
woman). Only 27. Some (truncated) covers of RJ's
recordings:
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