Imagine having so much talent people think it must be paranormal…the guy taught himself by watching and listening to others and that in itself is admirable.
@@Teedogmcor he just stage shy and feels like he can play better without the pressure of seeing so many people watching him. It's alot of rappers who have dark lyrics and lost souls and don't turn they back to the crowd.
Imagine becoming insanely famous in a short period during a time there was no social media, radio is very limited, television hasn't even taken off, that's impressive
He wasnt very famous at the time. He was discovered by a lot more people during the 50s where people would go to record stores and buy blues records with different artists, and thats how people discovered him.
I remember on a Netflix short documentary stated that Robert played everyday during his absence but practiced at a cemetery until he felt his music to being close to perfect.
This is sorta correct. The “Devil’s” name was Ike Zimmerman. “The Devil” lived just south of Hazlehurst, MS. That’s where Johnson went during those two missing years. He did go back home to find his real father and ran into Ike Zimmerman at a country store. Johnson lived and worked with Zimmerman during that time. Zimmerman taught Johnson every night, at night, in a graveyard, not even a five minute walk from Zimmerman’s home. The reason they practiced at such a peculiar hour and time was because the blues was frowned upon during that time for both white and black folk. Practicing at 12 midnight in a graveyard, it was certain nobody was gonna be around to hear and/or bother them while they played. Needless to say, Zimmerman was not the devil. In fact, he was a Pentecostal preacher who died in the late 60’s, in South Central Los Angeles. He even played around with the selling his soul jokingly. That is perhaps where the whole selling of Johnson’s soul mystic stemmed from. I don’t live too far Beauregard, MS (the actual name of the community where Zimmerman lived next to the graveyard). I’ve also stopped by Johnson’s true final resting place several times, to pay my respects and play a little guitar tune for him. He is buried under a tree, in the back of a cemetery, next to the Little Zion Baptist Church, just outside of Greenville, MS, surrounded by a huge cotton field. It’s on the same road where Billie Joe McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in the song “Ode to Billie Joe”. It’s also the church where they filmed the church scenes, in the movie “The Help”. About 5 miles north on that same road, is the remnants of the Bryant’s Grocery. The site of the Emmett Till incident. The incident that started the Civil Rights Movement. The name of the road is Money Rd., connecting Greenville to Money, MS. A lot of dark history on that road!
@Marco Tonta Go on then, gifted child :) show us some of those guitar skills in a video would you, or maybe you should put some more of you're talent and skill into punctuating your sentences.
fr, the algorithm is pushing it hard this time. maybe it's because he's black and it's black history month, but as a black person myself who is okay with pian and the recorder, they need to let me be! lol
My Theory... Because he had no formal training, he was doing things on the guitar that people did not understand. Fiddling with the guitar in an "unorthodox" way. After obsessive practice, things started to click and eventually became technique. Once he had technique, he could use it in any manner he wanted. Unusual techniques to the people witnessing this would seem incredibly advanced once the playing was attuned to melodies they could understand.
Right. I could learn to play his sings in a couple days. They aren't difficult in a physical sense, just incomparable for his time. Just like a Hendrix. Then people carry the lore on and add too it... Eventually he's one of the "greatest guitar players ever", even though there's some black metal guy in a basement that could play their songs with his ass
no joke, my brother and i both started playing guitar in our teens. i wasnt a prodigy or anything, but through grinding away, i was making significant progress. my brother was grinding too, but he seemed to have a real problem with rhythm. he would write these riffs, that were just not quite right. i would take them and "fix" them. well, fast forward to our 20s, and im getting downright competent as a writer/performer. but my bro is still not quite right. he is homeless at the time, and ends up going to a hippie town, to sell acid. ends up staying the whole summer. when he comes back to see me, i was BLOWN away. he was writing and playing on another level. he told me he took way too much acid one night, and played on the street corner for 2 days straight. on the 2nd night, he was still tripping HARD. he told me something just clicked. and it all made sense to him. still blows me away.
This is what any performer would want to achieve. Be so different and good, that people blame the devil's work. Liszt, Paganini and Robert Johnson are brilliant examples of that.
Another great example is Guitar Watson. His music was sometimes seen as unusual and strange for the 1950s, and some even called him messed up in the head.
Not all u make in artistry is based in personal opinion,experience etc sometimes your just a storyteller. Selling your soul to the devil is probably a metaphor....like giving into alcohol or whatever society/gospel deems a blasphemy/immoral...
Johnson was 'gone' for two years. You can progress a lot on an instrument in two years, especially if you set your mind to it. He also had opportunity to observe some of the blues guys like Son House and take all that in. I think the crossroads legend takes away from Johnson's ability to learn and improve. Some people become prodigies. It happens. And it also takes a lot of work.
Doesn't make any sense. It was the 1920s, people work really long hours back then. The only way he could be that good in 2 years is if he is unemployed and all he does is playing guitar day and night. I doubted he was unemployed.
@kenparvu3681 Oddly enough, there are present-day entertainers from Memphis who share Johnson's Devil culture. And one claimed to have had a literal near-death experience in which he went to Hell, was tormented and then rescued by "God," before being resuscitated. He tried to change his lifestyle after that incident but struggled. He died about a year later. Half the band members in his group died young. The last died a few months ago before posting a drawing on her Instagram page depicting a woman having sex with a demon. The group was called Three 6 Mafia (as in 666). Perhaps Johnson simply used Satan as a gimmick. But to me, as someone who follows Jesus, that's enough to make a deal out of.
@@pompeiisurvivor2502 May have been a common trope in the blues songs during that period. Skip James did "Devil Got My Woman", for example. A lot of religious references in blues -- some of the blues guys were also doing a form of gospel (Blind Willie Johnson being an example of that).
I've been obsessed with music since 1960. With me it's been an obsession. There's nothing I won't listen to that includes disc techno and yes rap. The Robert Johnso story bothered me for years and one day I quit being lazy and started doing my own research on it. It's a fascinating story, but this story has more outright fantasy to it than anyone I've ever studied. He's from Mississippi and as a child all he wanted to do was sing and play the blues. For whatever reason no one would help him. He forged ahead and tried being self taught. He just didn't seem to have any aptitude for music. As a young adult he would tell bar owners I'll play for free but he was so bad bar owners stopped letting him play for free cuz we can't sell drinks to people who aren't here. Blues legend Son House remembers Robert. Son House said when the pub owners no longer let him play for free he was going to move away. No body cared. Sure enough he disappeared for several months, however he came back, and this is when all the nonsense about RJ began. I'll be brief. When he left town the letter grade for his talent was clearly an F. When he returned it was no better than a C minus. True to form he never gave up. During his lifetime no one thought he was a rising star.When he took the stage when the band was on break at least people didn't walk out. He was never a star performer ever. He recorded 11 songs over a 4 year period. Not exactly a bluesman in demand. He had a bad habit of messing with married women. So his death is shrouded in mystery. Many claim a jealous husband poisoned him, it was never proven because frankly no one cared. He was the first member of the 27 club if that means anything. Fast forward to 1961. An engineer at Columbia records saw an ad in a trade publication. Those little fly by nite recording studios had decided to cell off the catalogs of their deceased artists. And they were going cheap. So this engineer got Columbia to buy a bunch of them. After all no residuals to the artists they're dead. Johnson's 11 songs were among the ones released. One snag though, Columbia wanted to put Johnson's picture on the cover. No one in Mississippi rembered who he was and they couldn't drum up so much as a snap shot of him so they had an artist draw a bluesman with his head down. Now the miracle of Robert Johnson begins. What makes this fascinating, is in the history of music there has never been such an obscure unknown unheralded bluesman who became a super star 30 years after he was dead. Mind you his songs that Columbia released did not sell all that well. Pick it up in 1965 and rock n roll was here to stay. All the young performers who would go on to be mega stars were just getting going. Clapton Beck, Hendrix Trower even Kieth Richard's Pete Townsend Mick Ralph's Bob Dylan George Harrison. American kids were buying up fan magazines like they were free. When all the those young up coming mega stars where asked who are some of your influences every one of them mentioned Robert Johnson. So the American rock media asked who the hell is Robert Johnson? That is how he become famous. Maybe he did sell his soul to the devil. The devil just forgot to tell him you won't be a mega star til you've been dead 30 years. Don't be playin' poker with the devil.
My problem with the idea that he sold his his soul starts with him playing the guitar for years before his disappearance and sudden talent. He was grinding his talent out from the first moment he picked up a guitar and likely studied at the shows of his idol. He didnt suddenly get good it was a process like everything else in this life.
Exactly, son house was lying for attention. Roberts stepsister says “some black people will say anything to a white man for a dollar.” Her book exposes these myths and says Robert first picked up guitar from his father before the age of ten.
You'd be surprised bro how many musicians and actors do this to get fame and money. Normal ppl like us don't know what really goes on behind the industry. There's lots of evil and blasphemy that goes on within.
Fun fact There is a Japanese manga about Robert Johnson and how he sold his soul to the devil to become a legendary musician which is titled the same as his song "Me and The Devil Blues" The manga has 5 volumes and it was written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto, the same guy who created Prison School
Theory: he didn't sell his soul. But all the devil talk in his songs in particular is a metaphor about drugs. Maybe he smoked a bunch of pot (bad in that day) and practiced over that 2 year period and got that good. And his songs are just about how drugs took over his life or some shit. Sorry im high Edit: obligatory edit about how I've never had this many likes
It wasn't seen bad at that time. That was 10 years after his death. I mean there was even medicine at that time with pot in it. I think it was a heroin type of substance he used.
Old Robert, I’ve heard his story a thousand times yet every retelling feels all the new. It never grows old, much like his music, for it lives on in the music of today; serving as a foundation for many genres, seems to me the devil kept his word and then some.
That’s a reach bro. THE BEST GUITARIST EVER TO LIVE WAS A BLACK MAN. Come on now. Ain’t nobody surprised when a black man can play the guitar. You reaching really hard. Honestly. Keep it real
I believe that Robert Johnson is the singular biggest reason why music is the way it is today, he influenced the musicians of the 50s/60s which influenced the artists of the 70s/80s which evolved to what we have today. It all comes back to roots of rock and roll
@@StreetDiscipletheGOAT913 Rock N Roll is a combination of Blues, Country, Jazz and Gospel all rolled into one. It’s crazy when you look back at how Rock N Roll came into the music scene and how it’s sound was a total fusion of other musical styles and genres.
You can't really say one person is the biggest reason. Elvis was huge in bringing music like this to the forefront of western society. You could also say that WW2 was a huge game changer. It was the boomers (as in the original ones born in the mid- to late-40s) who pushed this music forward too. It was having a sudden huge population of young people that really made rock and other forms of music grow exponentially.
@@christopherg.5833 your point is? Is that supposed to prove he sold something? Hundreds ees is of other people have done the same what's the point lmao
@@oxcsymbol i know what it means bruh I don't have an IQ of 3, i said imagine if he didn't and everyone was just accusing him for it. Key word "imagine".
This video perfectly describes the saying, "The majesty is in the mystery." The less we seem to know about him, the more interesting he becomes. Unanswered questions are what drive people to obsession
Clapton has said that when he heard Robert Johnson for the first time, it sounded as though Johnson were singing to him directly, to an audience of Eric Clapton and only Eric Clapton. It pierced his innermost being. I know what Clapton meant by that. Only a very select few musicians have effected that same feeling within me. Robert Johnson is not one of them, but I still greatly enjoy listening his music. Keith Richards has said that, as a young man, when he would listen to Robert Johnson, he couldn't believe what he was listening to -- he didn't believe it was humanly possible to create a sound *that* distinctive with just a single guitar and two hands. Imagine the brilliance had Robert Johnson lived longer and found a proper band to back him...
I disagree about the band. He was entirely his own person with his own unique sound, and he did it his way. Just a man and his guitar. I think a band might have ruined his style.
Clapton is full of sh*t. Layla (Lusted over his best friend, George Harrison’s woman). Layla - Duane Allman played lead on 11 of the tracks. Didn’t compose some of his biggest hits: Crossroads, Shot the Sheriff. Insanely jealous of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Shame Clapton gave up his helicopter seat to SRV.
I just love the whole story that first time Keith Richards heard Johnson's music he asked the audio engineer playing the album who the other guitarist was and the engineer had to spend something like 5 minutes explaining to the quintessential rock and roller that it was just the one guy
It's funny how they say all black musicians back then sold they soul to the devil but leave out that the companies that they was dealing wit was the devil's they sold too
@@MLEMOBLIFEENTERTAINMENT Did they really say that all black musicians sold their soul? Wow I didn't know that. Anyone with a brain though, would realize how rediculous the idea that anyone ever sold their soul to the devil is. I mean how do you even set up a meeting with Satan? And furthermore how do you sell your "soul "? Selling a thing that isn't real to an imaginary monster that supposedly rules over a made up place called "hell "?
When I heard he passed away at 27... I knew where this was going. African American history is so...I don't even know how to describe it. I just love learning. And that was a great conclusion! Thank you
Let me know what you guys think of the first episode of the new web series! I'm hoping to have a new episode out in the next month or so, these are time consuming to make so I can't be as consistent as I'd like to be but I really enjoyed making this so hopefully I'll have a full season (5 episodes) done as soon as possible!
Liking the format and topic, the only thing I would change is please start saying 'huh-huh' at the end of your videos again, somehow they're not same without it!
Most ppl who reach fame or the top of fame and that 15% of the WORLD population DO sell they soul it says in the bible satan will take man to the highest mountain and offer u EVERYTHING A MAN CAN DREAM (fame and money) in exchange for your soul...real shit
@@silversmith333 How does one nearly master an instrument in 2 years and no one else to this day comes close to the same feat? People dedicate their life to it and dont get as good as he was. Not saying he sold his soul but explain to me how he could master an instrument in such a short time.
I have one of his records in my bedroom. I love the sorrow and soul feeling he put behind his music, you can hear his life struggles in the way he pours it into blues melodies.
*Story time:* So with my own experience at the wells house in PA I’m sure y’all know what that place is, people now do investigations there. But I went there as a teen with a group of friends, the most traumatic experience ever… I never ever believed in ghosts until that day except it was no ghost… No one pukes gallons of blood 🩸 looking like they weigh 89 pounds & eyes turning pitch black in a matter of seconds & voice change from soft to mixed with something inside. What I witnessed as a teen was fucking traumatic. I can say he probably didn’t sell his soul… but evil exists and it comes in many forms. Not to mention I’m a family cult survivor of 12 only one escaped. Evil exists mine happened to be my family & more. Paranormal/voodoo shit went on the horror I experienced I don’t know how I’m standing. Probably got hit in the head many times idk that I just became ditzy. No clue. Stay safe out here people. Even the nicest people can do you dirty….
I still will never understand why someone would want to sell their soul to only live until 27, even thought that isn’t told to you. Nowadays it’s pretty known and no fame or money or talent is worth living such a short life and an eternity in hell.
I don’t like him but how have u never heard of him tho bc he influenced all the great guitarists. But ye UA-cam also recommends me the most random videos
Whenever someone is talented, people like to undermine it. Especially in those days.... he was just good and was hated for it.. He made the same people who laugh at him drop their jaws.
There was an episode about him in Supernatural, where He sold his soul to that demon to become a master of the guitar, 10 years after some hell hounds came to kill him and take his soul.
He died because it was time too go , in 1 of his songs he literally says that he was in a hotel and that the devil knocked on his door and that “he came too collect”
Being a musician myself, I have experienced firsthand what it's like to completely suck at playing the guitar, and have the ability to play pretty well. It certainly doesn't happen overnight, but anyone could go from terrible to amazing if given 2 years to do so...especially if they devote their life to it. Guitar is a strange thing. It took me months to learn how to properly play a bar chord, and then one day it just clicked. That's how music works. The more you try, the more likely it is that you will wake up one day and suddenly everything will just make sense. That has happened to me more than once, and if I had 2 years to play every day, I'm sure I could hone my skills enough to turn some heads. Look at Hendrix...he was also 27 when he died. Very young yet still considered one of, if not the best guitarist ever. It would be different if he came back 2 weeks later with those skills, but practice makes perfect. No need to sell your soul when you have 2 years to practice!
If shes still alive at 145 years then why the hell isnt she well known? Search the oldest human alive today and its gonna show you a japanese woman that is 117 years old search the oldest person that ever lived and youll see a british woman that lived only at 122 years. There are no pictures at all of julia (his mother) i think thats its just a conspiracy because her death was never reported or something
As a child I would often spend the night at my friends house, and in their home his father had a huge poster of Robert Johnson. The thumbnail of this video is the image. Something that about that photograph quality along with Johnson’s eyes scared me very much
I think its quite fascinating that he actually learned by himself by just looking at other musicians then in some way used every bit of play style to make it his own, but the fact that people assumed he sold his soul to the devil just to play guitar sounds like something that should be a movie lol
Obsessed with him & his story & idk why ,I’ve literally watched EVERY documentary…. I love when I’m watching shows like Supernatural & it’s an episode or something of someone pretending to be Robert Johnson .. it’s crazy how he is still relevant decades later💕💕
Well thts the devil doing its wonders. He isn't alive to enjoy the fame he got. Maybe tht was the deal they made. He would be good at guitar playing but wouldn't be recognized until well after his death. Idk just a theory
This story is age old and is most known from Dr. Faustus (late 1500s), which is where this tall tale likely came from. This type of knowledge is only a Google search away for Pete's sake
@@lrt35 LMAOOO how do you know either tho. People like you always baffle me- you could literally listen to Robert himself say he sold his soul & still tell him that what HE SAW & HEARD wasn’t real just bc you’ve never experienced it? Very white- I mean weird of you.
What y’all don’t realize is artist often put their truths in their art. This isn’t so different so many in the industry today. Signed to “deals” that require them to neglect and forsake their standards and morals for the sake of success and notoriety.
I don’t know if anyone remembers but in like S2 or S3 of Supernatural i’m pretty sure that episode of the blues musician guy that made a deal with the crossroads demon is about this guy. It’s so crazy they really put the truth in front of us in shows and movies to make it seem like it’s just for entertainment purposes but it’s really not. Believe it or not, but I just wanted to put that out there.
I saw someone in the comments say that he was away for two years and then came back and all of a sudden was a king on the guitar. When he was terrible to begin with. Doesn’t seem realistic also his death is very sus
jerry wright It’s possible but being terrible to being the best is sus. He’s still being talked about to this day. You don’t have to believe he did but I do
It’s interesting how people continuously think everything is just fake when dude SINGS IT IN MANY HIS SONGS. He literally said he sold his soul. Why is that so hard to believe? A better question is why people believe that the devil is fake? Then, why does ALL of his wives keep dying? It’s no coincidence.
I took a college English class based on popular music through the years and it was much more of a history class on music, which I adored. We had a lecture about Robert Johnson and other influential blues artists. I don't recall my professor going as in depth about him as this video did (basically only talking about the infamous legend), so I appreciate it.
@@nathanb.8114 I don't believe in these kid of illusions. these people are paranoid who think everything they dream is real. and yes, I said it's not that easy, I mean although I believe satanists are delusional and stupid but they think by doing some cringy and disgusting crimes as ritual they posses the power or gain fortune by satan. but they gain no shit after all, they either die like an animal or spend rest of their lives in prison. that's all because of TV and movies propaganda which is being injected to masses by bumbass celebrities and their handlers. there is no real religion in this world, good or bad
But the devil can deceive you into thinking you actually did sell your soul. Only Jesus can reveal the truth and save you from it. There’s plenty of witches testifying to this
I actually had no idea that this man existed, I only knew his name from the movie Crossroads, but that movie is based off of Robert. Very fascinating story of a man with what seems like unlimited guitar talent, I just got into guitar last year and the movie and Robert are some pretty big inspirations for me,
Thats how i learned. I just fed around until it sterted to sound like music. Then it all clicked as you say. Of course you have to have enough of a music iq to know what sounds work and dont together.
He has no soul to sell. He was just gifted. Hard work and a natural ability. No need to invoke the supernatural. No gods, no devils. Just hard work and talent.
@@lucidshotz6222 Yeah, he's close minded and yet your the one who immediately without provocation insults someone with a differing opinion from yours. What a pretentious hypocrite.
@@DrCooch you prolly tried so hard to sound smart. Obviously he was wrong in this topic. And when people are wrong in topics or don't even know what they're talking about you do correct them. If they wanna believe whatever after then that's on them. I had to dumb it down for you cuz you're not smart. You're just trying to be lol 🤣🤣💯💯💯
Whether Robert sold his soul to the devil or not, he has darn good and dark music to listen to. It is, i agree, that Robert's life was intense and sad at the same time, but how he stuck to going after his dream is inspirational! Goodbye, king of the delta blues
Insane he’s being talked about today, imagine being that well known.
Almost gonna be 100 years since his death. That tells you what a legend is.
Thats not a particularly long period of time
@@Nick80082 fo sho
That was part of the deal
jim bill Jesus
"little is known about his life... it's still a mystery"
Proceeds to talk about his life in details until death..
about his death
Lmao
Lol
Well it’s limited details. There’s not very much on his life as most musicians
Little is known, takes a 15 minute video as knowledge
Imagine having so much talent people think it must be paranormal…the guy taught himself by watching and listening to others and that in itself is admirable.
And the Devil
If he didn’t have Jesus he’s in hell
@@Evangelistcecill yes you are correct
Right! 🤚🏾
@@Evangelistcecill 😁🤣🤣
He turned his back to the audience while he played, gives me chills.
The 27 club. Back to the crowd. Dark lyrics. Souls lost. From Robert Johnson to Jim Morrison to Curt Cobain, Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
@@Teedogmcor he just stage shy and feels like he can play better without the pressure of seeing so many people watching him. It's alot of rappers who have dark lyrics and lost souls and don't turn they back to the crowd.
I saw Miles Davis do that too.
Angus young did the same
Welll there’s the proof 😂
I wouldnt trust the devil when it comes to giving out music abilities...dude lost to a boy with a fiddle
what are you referencing? just curious
Made me smile haha
I'll tell you once you sum-bitch I'm the best there's ever been 😏
@@delo.9999 it’s a song
i dont think he goes to georgia anymore ngl
Imagine becoming insanely famous in a short period during a time there was no social media, radio is very limited, television hasn't even taken off, that's impressive
Its called absolute hard work and dedication. Mad respect
He wasnt very famous at the time. He was discovered by a lot more people during the 50s where people would go to record stores and buy blues records with different artists, and thats how people discovered him.
Well that man let him play into his can with the Soggy Bottom Boys sooo
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No one knew who he was outside of predominantly black Mississippi circles until 1962. 😂😂😂
Smh, you weren't even paying attention to the story. 😑 Reading youtube comments
Christians - "He sold his soul to the devil!"
Skeptics - "He just practiced."
History Channel - "It was Aliens!"
B. G. That’s effectively,effing funny!!!
Me: he actually could play good the entire time
I believe in the supernatural so I'll go with devil thing
Lol!
Perfect
I remember on a Netflix short documentary stated that Robert played everyday during his absence but practiced at a cemetery until he felt his music to being close to perfect.
This is sorta correct. The “Devil’s” name was Ike Zimmerman. “The Devil” lived just south of Hazlehurst, MS. That’s where Johnson went during those two missing years. He did go back home to find his real father and ran into Ike Zimmerman at a country store. Johnson lived and worked with Zimmerman during that time. Zimmerman taught Johnson every night, at night, in a graveyard, not even a five minute walk from Zimmerman’s home. The reason they practiced at such a peculiar hour and time was because the blues was frowned upon during that time for both white and black folk. Practicing at 12 midnight in a graveyard, it was certain nobody was gonna be around to hear and/or bother them while they played. Needless to say, Zimmerman was not the devil. In fact, he was a Pentecostal preacher who died in the late 60’s, in South Central Los Angeles. He even played around with the selling his soul jokingly. That is perhaps where the whole selling of Johnson’s soul mystic stemmed from. I don’t live too far Beauregard, MS (the actual name of the community where Zimmerman lived next to the graveyard). I’ve also stopped by Johnson’s true final resting place several times, to pay my respects and play a little guitar tune for him. He is buried under a tree, in the back of a cemetery, next to the Little Zion Baptist Church, just outside of Greenville, MS, surrounded by a huge cotton field. It’s on the same road where Billie Joe McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in the song “Ode to Billie Joe”. It’s also the church where they filmed the church scenes, in the movie “The Help”. About 5 miles north on that same road, is the remnants of the Bryant’s Grocery. The site of the Emmett Till incident. The incident that started the Civil Rights Movement. The name of the road is Money Rd., connecting Greenville to Money, MS. A lot of dark history on that road!
@@BradHowell-c9l Theres a lot of really interesting history out in those places
Imagine being so good at the guitar that the public thinks you sold your soul to get that good. I’d take that as a compliment to the highest degree.
If you dont have a mustache then what about a beard or a goatee?
just who are you
He literally wrote a song about selling his soul lol it's quite obvious at this point
The first time I've seen this dude without 12k likes on a comment
@@BigSteppa019 same
This would have made a good 90's movie starring Denzel
They did make a movie
Juanjesus Hernandez they made 2
I agree I hope they do it
Definitely could see Denzel Washington in a movie playing him
One of those two is "the crossroads", staring Ralph Machio.
Me: searches how to learn the guitar fast
Google: pick the right guitar. Learn your strings. Stay consistent and practice alot
Bing:
Lmao
Bruhhhhhh
Sell your soul💀💀
@Marco Tonta have you uploaded anything ? Would love to see what mastering the guitar in 3 weeks looks like. You must be a prodigy.
@Marco Tonta Go on then, gifted child :) show us some of those guitar skills in a video would you, or maybe you should put some more of you're talent and skill into punctuating your sentences.
Am I the only one that has been recommended this video like a hundred times? And has watched it like three times??
Yup, you’re the only one, you must watch some boring sh1t mate 😂
fr, the algorithm is pushing it hard this time. maybe it's because he's black and it's black history month, but as a black person myself who is okay with pian and the recorder, they need to let me be! lol
My Theory...
Because he had no formal training, he was doing things on the guitar that people did not understand. Fiddling with the guitar in an "unorthodox" way. After obsessive practice, things started to click and eventually became technique. Once he had technique, he could use it in any manner he wanted. Unusual techniques to the people witnessing this would seem incredibly advanced once the playing was attuned to melodies they could understand.
Right. I could learn to play his sings in a couple days. They aren't difficult in a physical sense, just incomparable for his time. Just like a Hendrix. Then people carry the lore on and add too it... Eventually he's one of the "greatest guitar players ever", even though there's some black metal guy in a basement that could play their songs with his ass
Ask Bob Dylan about making a deal with the devil
Good point
he was playing in front of other blues guitarist so they knew if he was good or not
im thinking that and a fair amount of drugs involved
no joke, my brother and i both started playing guitar in our teens. i wasnt a prodigy or anything, but through grinding away, i was making significant progress. my brother was grinding too, but he seemed to have a real problem with rhythm. he would write these riffs, that were just not quite right. i would take them and "fix" them. well, fast forward to our 20s, and im getting downright competent as a writer/performer. but my bro is still not quite right. he is homeless at the time, and ends up going to a hippie town, to sell acid. ends up staying the whole summer. when he comes back to see me, i was BLOWN away. he was writing and playing on another level. he told me he took way too much acid one night, and played on the street corner for 2 days straight. on the 2nd night, he was still tripping HARD. he told me something just clicked. and it all made sense to him. still blows me away.
not saying this happened to robert but i believe some ppl really do just have that lightbulb moment with their instrument.
@@ambrose9968 for sure. and ive had some real leaps myself, but nothing like my brother. it was almost supernatural. lol
Rolling ciggies was pretty much the same thing with me, was smokeable but wack then one day just figured it out
this is an amazing story
such a sick ass story
imagine being dead for 100 years+ and people still talked about you
is what Jesus must think too; )
It's not close to 100+ years
@gid daym dude im just saying holy shit.
Only the alive can imagine.
Jesus Christ: am I a joke to you?
This is what any performer would want to achieve. Be so different and good, that people blame the devil's work. Liszt, Paganini and Robert Johnson are brilliant examples of that.
I mean Robert songs titles were a bit weird.
I dunno who any of them are now I gotta look
Reminds me of the 'you're so good at CoD that people start accusing you of cheating and using aimbots' phenomena.
@@Daniel_Godismyjudge--Isah33.22 ratio
Another great example is Guitar Watson. His music was sometimes seen as unusual and strange for the 1950s, and some even called him messed up in the head.
Song title: Hell Hound on my Trail
Everybody: Naw he didn't sell his soul
How can you just make up a whole story out of nothing?
Hmmmm....
Weeweeweeweeweeweeweeweew
Hex Drummin Beats Lmaoo it’s a metaphorrrrrr
lol its just music
AbSTRACT ,*0¡, have you heard of folklore?
People like nah he didn’t sell his soul
Robert: sings about selling his soul
The saddest thing about this pathetic world...bc artists of today, STILL do this and ppl STILL say that smh
He probably made that song just to troll people lmao
Not all u make in artistry is based in personal opinion,experience etc sometimes your just a storyteller. Selling your soul to the devil is probably a metaphor....like giving into alcohol or whatever society/gospel deems a blasphemy/immoral...
@@miracraigfan1738 no
Im waiting for those hell hounds too
Johnson was 'gone' for two years. You can progress a lot on an instrument in two years, especially if you set your mind to it. He also had opportunity to observe some of the blues guys like Son House and take all that in. I think the crossroads legend takes away from Johnson's ability to learn and improve. Some people become prodigies. It happens. And it also takes a lot of work.
Didn't Charlie "The Bird" Parker "disappear" to improve his sax playing? He's now considered one of the greatest jazz sax players ever
Doesn't make any sense. It was the 1920s, people work really long hours back then. The only way he could be that good in 2 years is if he is unemployed and all he does is playing guitar day and night. I doubted he was unemployed.
Forget how good he was. What's up with all the references to Satan in the lyrics?
@kenparvu3681 Oddly enough, there are present-day entertainers from Memphis who share Johnson's Devil culture. And one claimed to have had a literal near-death experience in which he went to Hell, was tormented and then rescued by "God," before being resuscitated. He tried to change his lifestyle after that incident but struggled. He died about a year later. Half the band members in his group died young. The last died a few months ago before posting a drawing on her Instagram page depicting a woman having sex with a demon. The group was called Three 6 Mafia (as in 666). Perhaps Johnson simply used Satan as a gimmick. But to me, as someone who follows Jesus, that's enough to make a deal out of.
@@pompeiisurvivor2502 May have been a common trope in the blues songs during that period. Skip James did "Devil Got My Woman", for example. A lot of religious references in blues -- some of the blues guys were also doing a form of gospel (Blind Willie Johnson being an example of that).
I've been obsessed with music since 1960. With me it's been an obsession. There's nothing I won't listen to that includes disc techno and yes rap. The Robert Johnso story bothered me for years and one day I quit being lazy and started doing my own research on it. It's a fascinating story, but this story has more outright fantasy to it than anyone I've ever studied. He's from Mississippi and as a child all he wanted to do was sing and play the blues. For whatever reason no one would help him. He forged ahead and tried being self taught. He just didn't seem to have any aptitude for music. As a young adult he would tell bar owners I'll play for free but he was so bad bar owners stopped letting him play for free cuz we can't sell drinks to people who aren't here. Blues legend Son House remembers Robert. Son House said when the pub owners no longer let him play for free he was going to move away. No body cared. Sure enough he disappeared for several months, however he came back, and this is when all the nonsense about RJ began. I'll be brief. When he left town the letter grade for his talent was clearly an F. When he returned it was no better than a C minus. True to form he never gave up. During his lifetime no one thought he was a rising star.When he took the stage when the band was on break at least people didn't walk out. He was never a star performer ever. He recorded 11 songs over a 4 year period. Not exactly a bluesman in demand. He had a bad habit of messing with married women. So his death is shrouded in mystery. Many claim a jealous husband poisoned him, it was never proven because frankly no one cared. He was the first member of the 27 club if that means anything. Fast forward to 1961. An engineer at Columbia records saw an ad in a trade publication. Those little fly by nite recording studios had decided to cell off the catalogs of their deceased artists. And they were going cheap. So this engineer got Columbia to buy a bunch of them. After all no residuals to the artists they're dead. Johnson's 11 songs were among the ones released. One snag though, Columbia wanted to put Johnson's picture on the cover. No one in Mississippi rembered who he was and they couldn't drum up so much as a snap shot of him so they had an artist draw a bluesman with his head down. Now the miracle of Robert Johnson begins. What makes this fascinating, is in the history of music there has never been such an obscure unknown unheralded bluesman who became a super star 30 years after he was dead. Mind you his songs that Columbia released did not sell all that well. Pick it up in 1965 and rock n roll was here to stay. All the young performers who would go on to be mega stars were just getting going. Clapton Beck, Hendrix Trower even Kieth Richard's Pete Townsend Mick Ralph's Bob Dylan George Harrison. American kids were buying up fan magazines like they were free. When all the those young up coming mega stars where asked who are some of your influences every one of them mentioned Robert Johnson. So the American rock media asked who the hell is Robert Johnson? That is how he become famous. Maybe he did sell his soul to the devil. The devil just forgot to tell him you won't be a mega star til you've been dead 30 years. Don't be playin' poker with the devil.
Master of yapping
That’s pretty dope thanks for the history lesson
History lessons are well appreciated, thanks.
😭😭😭that’s deep
Thank you for taking the time to type all of that. Very intriguing.
Guitar teachers HATE him: see how this man learned to play the blues with one simple trick!! 😈
Thank you for this
U made this video complete
😂😂😂
At the point of my comment this has 666 likes😳. For some reason my like wouldn't add to it.
Overtly Antagonistic Coincidence? I think NOT 😂
My problem with the idea that he sold his his soul starts with him playing the guitar for years before his disappearance and sudden talent. He was grinding his talent out from the first moment he picked up a guitar and likely studied at the shows of his idol. He didnt suddenly get good it was a process like everything else in this life.
Exactly, son house was lying for attention. Roberts stepsister says “some black people will say anything to a white man for a dollar.” Her book exposes these myths and says Robert first picked up guitar from his father before the age of ten.
You'd be surprised bro how many musicians and actors do this to get fame and money. Normal ppl like us don't know what really goes on behind the industry. There's lots of evil and blasphemy that goes on within.
So him saying he sold his soul meant nothing
Yeah even though he said he sold his soul
@@luclagrange4477 source?
Fun fact
There is a Japanese manga about Robert Johnson and how he sold his soul to the devil to become a legendary musician which is titled the same as his song "Me and The Devil Blues"
The manga has 5 volumes and it was written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto, the same guy who created Prison School
Legit the way I found out about him
Not gonna read it because of what he did to prison school
is the manga good? and also what happened to prison school? I liked the anime
@@jyu3646 last arc was ridiculously long and poorly written, and then it ended abruptly with the worst ending possible
@@PartyCrasher04 since im not gonna read it anyway, how did it end?
What shall it benefit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Amen these ppl need Jesus
In case of music and art it shall benefit the world
Theory: he didn't sell his soul. But all the devil talk in his songs in particular is a metaphor about drugs. Maybe he smoked a bunch of pot (bad in that day) and practiced over that 2 year period and got that good.
And his songs are just about how drugs took over his life or some shit.
Sorry im high
Edit: obligatory edit about how I've never had this many likes
It wasn't seen bad at that time. That was 10 years after his death. I mean there was even medicine at that time with pot in it. I think it was a heroin type of substance he used.
Don't apologize my man. It's good to enjoy yourself while you're alive
Acoustic Boi yeeeeaaaaa bruuhhhaaa hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hang loose brotherrr 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
Bruh .We have the same profile pic
@@oceanman5657 ayy
I don't know why this was recommended But it was very interesting
U are so cute
Same
Old Robert, I’ve heard his story a thousand times yet every retelling feels all the new. It never grows old, much like his music, for it lives on in the music of today; serving as a foundation for many genres, seems to me the devil kept his word and then some.
Paul Orlando Well said!
Or ya know , things get passed on through history...
Okay Shakespeare
And a legend he is
You can sell your soul but the devil will always come to collect
Hello Patrick how are you doing 😊
You can’t sell what’s not yours
@@joseph_BarbossaGod gave us free will with our soul. So yeah you can.
@joseph_Barboss a
Oh yea you can the devil will give you a glamorous life for your soul when you die brother
@@MayraSanchez-e2gThere is no free will. "God" controls everything.
The 😈 went down to Georgia..
Oh god! Oh god I'm runnin'! WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAA-OW!! Runnin' with the The 😈! Yes I am! Yeah!
Wtf
Guess he was looking for a soul to steal
Where did it come from
TheManChise Mississippi*
''A black man playing the Guitar''....
Crowd: WIZARD!!!
Lmaoooo yo
😂😂
That’s a reach bro. THE BEST GUITARIST EVER TO LIVE WAS A BLACK MAN. Come on now. Ain’t nobody surprised when a black man can play the guitar. You reaching really hard. Honestly. Keep it real
@@Trey_Cole There's something called sense of humor, it's not taught in school but given to us for free in life
@@Trey_Cole if he actually sold his sold it would be interesting but since he didn’t there’s nothing to learn from it but it’s still interesting
Remeber the devil used to be a musical angel in heaven so ofc he knows all about music and would try to take over the music industry
FACTS
He has taken over🙄
Devil wasn’t an angel, he was a different creation from angels. Known as Jinn
@@DemirAhmetov you bugging and obviously know nothing 😂
@@DemirAhmetov he was cuh💀
Son House was a beast! Love his sound and the way he talked. Reminds me of the old folks I grew up around. ❤
I believe that Robert Johnson is the singular biggest reason why music is the way it is today, he influenced the musicians of the 50s/60s which influenced the artists of the 70s/80s which evolved to what we have today. It all comes back to roots of rock and roll
The roots of the blues Rock and Roll is a combination of blues jazz and country
there is no single reason the evolution of music is inevitable
@@StreetDiscipletheGOAT913 Rock N Roll is a combination of Blues, Country, Jazz and Gospel all rolled into one. It’s crazy when you look back at how Rock N Roll came into the music scene and how it’s sound was a total fusion of other musical styles and genres.
@@StreetDiscipletheGOAT913 Add Boggie woogie and gospel and you've just about got it covered.
You can't really say one person is the biggest reason. Elvis was huge in bringing music like this to the forefront of western society. You could also say that WW2 was a huge game changer. It was the boomers (as in the original ones born in the mid- to late-40s) who pushed this music forward too. It was having a sudden huge population of young people that really made rock and other forms of music grow exponentially.
Talent so good, people say you sold you're soul......imagine going to heaven and seeing him and just realizing his raw talent that people mistook.
He literally made songs about the devil
@@christopherg.5833 your point is? Is that supposed to prove he sold something? Hundreds ees is of other people have done the same what's the point lmao
@@shaqjuice420 what's the point? The point is is that it's fuckd up
You clearly don’t understand what selling your soul is
@@oxcsymbol i know what it means bruh I don't have an IQ of 3, i said imagine if he didn't and everyone was just accusing him for it. Key word "imagine".
David Bowie-The Man Who Sold the World
Robert Johnson-The Man Who Sold His Soul to The Devil
@GreyFiveNine yep, and his version is mind blowing no pun intended.
@@bio-plasmictoad5311Nice choice of words
GreyFiveNine ah yes, kurt kobain. i also love dave crohl and chris bossanova
@@weirddudecastillo7280 dont u meant dave bowl and chris nobaselit
Joseph Rowe It's Kurt Cobain who sang that song bro
This video perfectly describes the saying, "The majesty is in the mystery."
The less we seem to know about him, the more interesting he becomes.
Unanswered questions are what drive people to obsession
Imagine him having sleepless nights and many tears and rejections before his success just to be discredited like this.
I agree Joseph Stalin
@@lefttwix2899 Yes, now, for your kindness, Gulag 12 years.
Joseph Stalin can I go too?
Someone can treat that as an uncanny compliment.
Gulag, 10 years
Clapton has said that when he heard Robert Johnson for the first time, it sounded as though Johnson were singing to him directly, to an audience of Eric Clapton and only Eric Clapton. It pierced his innermost being. I know what Clapton meant by that. Only a very select few musicians have effected that same feeling within me. Robert Johnson is not one of them, but I still greatly enjoy listening his music. Keith Richards has said that, as a young man, when he would listen to Robert Johnson, he couldn't believe what he was listening to -- he didn't believe it was humanly possible to create a sound *that* distinctive with just a single guitar and two hands.
Imagine the brilliance had Robert Johnson lived longer and found a proper band to back him...
I disagree about the band. He was entirely his own person with his own unique sound, and he did it his way. Just a man and his guitar. I think a band might have ruined his style.
Clapton is full of sh*t.
Layla (Lusted over his best friend, George Harrison’s woman).
Layla - Duane Allman played lead on 11 of the tracks.
Didn’t compose some of his biggest hits: Crossroads, Shot the Sheriff.
Insanely jealous of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Shame Clapton gave up his helicopter seat to SRV.
I just love the whole story that first time Keith Richards heard Johnson's music he asked the audio engineer playing the album who the other guitarist was and the engineer had to spend something like 5 minutes explaining to the quintessential rock and roller that it was just the one guy
This is the urban legend of music.
My phone listens to me I was learning about this guy today in history that's kind of scary
I had to write a paragraph on him
UA-cam always listens
we keepin watch
I was watching supernatural and he got brought up this is weird
The UA-cam algorithm is getting advance
Worked so hard that people think you sold your soul🔥
It's funny how they say all black musicians back then sold they soul to the devil but leave out that the companies that they was dealing wit was the devil's they sold too
@@MLEMOBLIFEENTERTAINMENT Say That Again.. ✊🏾
@@MLEMOBLIFEENTERTAINMENT Did they really say that all black musicians sold their soul? Wow I didn't know that. Anyone with a brain though, would realize how rediculous the idea that anyone ever sold their soul to the devil is. I mean how do you even set up a meeting with Satan? And furthermore how do you sell your "soul "? Selling a thing that isn't real to an imaginary monster that supposedly rules over a made up place called "hell "?
No matter what you go through don't stoop so low to sell your soul
How did he sell his soul?
@@mrdollaroutof15cents you can't
@@EditzDLN you can, many people sold their soul for money or fame
@@robloxtrends2683 no thats bullshit i tried for educational purpose and it never worked so tell me how its possible
@@EditzDLN because you didn’t really want it
When I heard he passed away at 27... I knew where this was going. African American history is so...I don't even know how to describe it. I just love learning. And that was a great conclusion! Thank you
My daughter was born 50 years to the day of his death, As a blues musician this was a huge thing for me.
I was born on the day of his death
@@renereadingjourney1793 her*
@@ripzodgaming8467 nigga what
Led Zeppelin would be a good one to do considering their links to the creepy Aleister Crowley...
Misteeeer Crowleeeeey
@@zilhad3584 yessssss boi
@@zilhad3584 What have they done in your head?
@@HALIGOAT_ Did you talk to the dead?
LeeboProductions You should read up on the occult
Let me know what you guys think of the first episode of the new web series! I'm hoping to have a new episode out in the next month or so, these are time consuming to make so I can't be as consistent as I'd like to be but I really enjoyed making this so hopefully I'll have a full season (5 episodes) done as soon as possible!
Such good content!
This is brilliant idea for a series. First episode is definitely a fasinating story to be told. Keep up the great work and fantastic content 👏
Im in to it mate, great content.
What's the craic?
This video was the craic!!!
Well done laddie! *purr purr purr*
💕 >^. .^< 💕
Liking the format and topic, the only thing I would change is please start saying 'huh-huh' at the end of your videos again, somehow they're not same without it!
this is the real life version of being so good at a videogame you get accused of hacking
Where the gamer admits hacking
When you said born in 1911 my eye was like 👀👀👀 I can imagine what struggle he went thru
Right
@Kaneki Ken u is right
About the same as the Irish struggle,on second thoughts the Irish had it much worse despite their having the mythical white privilege.
@@Sandwich13455 Indentured servant≠being a slave
My grandmother was born in 1920 and still alive.
*Works hard to master the guitar*
“The man that sold his soul to be a musician”
-bruh-
🤣 Right? It is obvious that most musicians have sold their souls.
Deadass😂
Most ppl who reach fame or the top of fame and that 15% of the WORLD population DO sell they soul it says in the bible satan will take man to the highest mountain and offer u EVERYTHING A MAN CAN DREAM (fame and money) in exchange for your soul...real shit
Son Goku how does that prove anything
@@silversmith333 How does one nearly master an instrument in 2 years and no one else to this day comes close to the same feat? People dedicate their life to it and dont get as good as he was. Not saying he sold his soul but explain to me how he could master an instrument in such a short time.
I have one of his records in my bedroom. I love the sorrow and soul feeling he put behind his music, you can hear his life struggles in the way he pours it into blues melodies.
May I ask, the albums name?
*Story time:* So with my own experience at the wells house in PA I’m sure y’all know what that place is, people now do investigations there. But I went there as a teen with a group of friends, the most traumatic experience ever… I never ever believed in ghosts until that day except it was no ghost… No one pukes gallons of blood 🩸 looking like they weigh 89 pounds & eyes turning pitch black in a matter of seconds & voice change from soft to mixed with something inside. What I witnessed as a teen was fucking traumatic. I can say he probably didn’t sell his soul… but evil exists and it comes in many forms. Not to mention I’m a family cult survivor of 12 only one escaped. Evil exists mine happened to be my family & more. Paranormal/voodoo shit went on the horror I experienced I don’t know how I’m standing. Probably got hit in the head many times idk that I just became ditzy. No clue.
Stay safe out here people. Even the nicest people can do you dirty….
Honestly the grace of God found you. Draw close to him and he will lighten your path
No matter how down my life gets I will NEVER scoop tht low to sell my soul my soul belongs to God and God only
Your loss
Lol my soul belongs to me and only me.
Epikaizo Mkhwanazi *letter
same dude 🙌for God only, not me or the Devil or anyone
Jesus christ right?
I still will never understand why someone would want to sell their soul to only live until 27, even thought that isn’t told to you. Nowadays it’s pretty known and no fame or money or talent is worth living such a short life and an eternity in hell.
Yup
It’s essentially “The story of the frog and scorpion”
Rockstar lifestyle
When makin demon deals if you deal with Abbodon she will give you 10-20 years before coming to claim
Hell and soul selling isn't real lmao. Ya'll spitting bullshit
2 wives passed away, I say that’s two body sacrifices.
Exactly
Yes
But every one is gonna die..
@@richardedwinn1291 yea but come on now
@@osvaldo4748 mmh 🙄, I can't do something like that. There is, but not that way.. 🔺👁️🗨️
Recently bought exactly this album remastered in 1961. Although I have no record player, I bought it anyway. It's magic
Man, UA-cam recommends me the most random videos. Never heard of Robert Johnson until today and glad I learned a new piece of history
I don’t like him but how have u never heard of him tho bc he influenced all the great guitarists. But ye UA-cam also recommends me the most random videos
Whenever someone is talented, people like to undermine it. Especially in those days.... he was just good and was hated for it.. He made the same people who laugh at him drop their jaws.
I know everyone has a talent but he literally said he sold his soul in one of his songs
@@voldibayizitunda2178 i mean yeah but you would to if it brought you clout
Whenever you’re BLACK and talented they’re going to undermine it 💯
@@voldibayizitunda2178 there is NO SUCH THING AS SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL. How do people still believe this shit in the 21st century?
@Davion Jackson stop not believe in what? MAGIC? Lol
Hell's music scene is lit
KRYPT NOTIK AC DC, Robert Johnson, slipknot. Yeah sounds kinda dope
Xxxtentacion juice wrld lil uzi Trippie redd
Yeah Lucifer was an angel of music
That One Guy That Watches Anime he’ll yeah lol
That One Guy That Watches Anime your name is great tho lol
When folks say: the man, the myth, the legend. This is that man.❤
I fucking knew it! * slaps my thigh *
Knew what
@@Worldstar_Techyeah, knew what my man dont leaves us hangin
How you gonna do us like that
what is thigh, i think u mean something else
Your thinking of Blue Grass. This is the blues. No Bangos around here.
There was an episode about him in Supernatural, where He sold his soul to that demon to become a master of the guitar, 10 years after some hell hounds came to kill him and take his soul.
Ya I remember that episode
i dont get you...he sold his soul..years later some spirit come take his soul what soul was left??😂😂
nelson's home when he made the deal the demon didn’t take his soul until 10 years later when the hell hounds to came to collect it
@@madefornelson haha i got you man.
This episode came to me instantly
He died because it was time too go , in 1 of his songs he literally says that he was in a hotel and that the devil knocked on his door and that “he came too collect”
Maybe...
Damn💀
jeville TV your time on earth is limited regardless lol i know what you mean tho
You just gave me the chills,Damn.
🤧...
“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul.” Mark 8:36
Why did I see Mark Twain 8:36
Being a musician myself, I have experienced firsthand what it's like to completely suck at playing the guitar, and have the ability to play pretty well. It certainly doesn't happen overnight, but anyone could go from terrible to amazing if given 2 years to do so...especially if they devote their life to it. Guitar is a strange thing. It took me months to learn how to properly play a bar chord, and then one day it just clicked. That's how music works. The more you try, the more likely it is that you will wake up one day and suddenly everything will just make sense. That has happened to me more than once, and if I had 2 years to play every day, I'm sure I could hone my skills enough to turn some heads. Look at Hendrix...he was also 27 when he died. Very young yet still considered one of, if not the best guitarist ever. It would be different if he came back 2 weeks later with those skills, but practice makes perfect. No need to sell your soul when you have 2 years to practice!
And having a Master of Blues guitar like Ike Zimmerman training him for like 8 hours a day, would definently help.
Great comment.. lol I guess 2 yrs is too long 🤑🤑 for sum folks..🤷⚰️😳😈
THANKYOU!!
Bring up hendrix and he's in the 27 club as well
The real question is how is his mom still alive at 145 years old
Johnson sold his soul to his mother!
@@1astcetrA ffs
If shes still alive at 145 years then why the hell isnt she well known? Search the oldest human alive today and its gonna show you a japanese woman that is 117 years old search the oldest person that ever lived and youll see a british woman that lived only at 122 years. There are no pictures at all of julia (his mother) i think thats its just a conspiracy because her death was never reported or something
Lol
@@eroith5133 *facepalm*
He didn't sell his soul, he found the pick of destiny.
Why don't you just use a translator?... What and let him read it too? 😂🤣😃
He made a bargain with Satan, The End!
@@YAH-1 Some say it was Ronald McDonald 🤣
@@YAH-1 Nah he made a deal with Grimace from McDonald's.
@@mocha_gae2629 that was a good one man how long have you had that one chambered?
As a child I would often spend the night at my friends house, and in their home his father had a huge poster of Robert Johnson. The thumbnail of this video is the image. Something that about that photograph quality along with Johnson’s eyes scared me very much
“Very little is known”. Goes on to show voice recordings and knows every detail about his life
"knows every detail about his life" and that's, where you're wrong
the fact that this is normal in the rap game is crazy
Fr bro
And every white musicians
Any mainstream artist not just rap, basically the whole music industry
@@mricecream5194 not true at all.
Mr ice cream race card AGAIN
I came across a cassette tape of him like 20 years ago and I was in awe. I always felt like he was playing 2 guitars.
I think its quite fascinating that he actually learned by himself by just looking at other musicians then in some way used every bit of play style to make it his own, but the fact that people assumed he sold his soul to the devil just to play guitar sounds like something that should be a movie lol
Obsessed with him & his story & idk why ,I’ve literally watched EVERY documentary…. I love when I’m watching shows like Supernatural & it’s an episode or something of someone pretending to be Robert Johnson .. it’s crazy how he is still relevant decades later💕💕
They made a movie about this. I think it's called crossroads.
Well thts the devil doing its wonders. He isn't alive to enjoy the fame he got. Maybe tht was the deal they made. He would be good at guitar playing but wouldn't be recognized until well after his death. Idk just a theory
This story is age old and is most known from Dr. Faustus (late 1500s), which is where this tall tale likely came from. This type of knowledge is only a Google search away for Pete's sake
@@Gshotpurp it's a made up story for Pete's sake, There is no theory other than that
@@lrt35 LMAOOO how do you know either tho. People like you always baffle me- you could literally listen to Robert himself say he sold his soul & still tell him that what HE SAW & HEARD wasn’t real just bc you’ve never experienced it? Very white- I mean weird of you.
What y’all don’t realize is artist often put their truths in their art. This isn’t so different so many in the industry today. Signed to “deals” that require them to neglect and forsake their standards and morals for the sake of success and notoriety.
This is a perfect example of how practice can make you sound better overtime
It's actually very inspiring.
z ⸒ ok
I don’t know if anyone remembers but in like S2 or S3 of Supernatural i’m pretty sure that episode of the blues musician guy that made a deal with the crossroads demon is about this guy. It’s so crazy they really put the truth in front of us in shows and movies to make it seem like it’s just for entertainment purposes but it’s really not. Believe it or not, but I just wanted to put that out there.
I Remember That Episode & Yes It Is About Him.
The Illuminati reveals Threw media now it’s up to you to decipher the message
I knew i was bond to find a supernatrual comment 🤣
I sold my soul and I got the talent but crippling depression as well
What?
Tom Morris Music I sold my soul to jesus but good job
This is just a joke I don’t even believe in a devil
@@tmmmedia731 Well ok but just so you know if you did sell your soul to the devil you would be alot worse than being depressed.
Michael Alexander I’m not even that good and every time I go on Instagram I am like goddamn why are these ppl so good
Imagine believing that he sold his soul when he was just talented.
I saw someone in the comments say that he was away for two years and then came back and all of a sudden was a king on the guitar. When he was terrible to begin with. Doesn’t seem realistic also his death is very sus
@@ellexo0988 now image someone leaving for two years to get away from his problems and learn music meanwhile
U don't sell ur soul to be talented u sell it to be popular he was already talented he jus wanted the fame
jerry wright It’s possible but being terrible to being the best is sus. He’s still being talked about to this day. You don’t have to believe he did but I do
Like ya bruh I suck at playing the piano so at midnight ima just play loud af and the devil will appear...lookin ass.
I have never even heard of him until right now. That UA-cam wormhole, man.
Very well done documentary it's nice to see a different view about Robert Johnson
Glad you enjoyed it!
I live in Mississippi and I've been to the legendary Crossroads he speaks of. Said a silent prayer and went on my way. RIP Robert Johnson
Tammy hey wat part is the cross roads in Mississippi
Rosedale or Clarksdale?
Simple music can make you sing simple things can make you happy simple hug can make you feel better, i hope my simple Hello make you smile..
*When you're too ahead of your time*
Some people: "Yeah! He sold his soul"
😂😂😂😂
I just hope the next generation don't do the same to Tupac
Sounds about white
@@moedeeclone6497 dont worry, Tupac's ass
@@moedeeclone6497 don't worry Tupac's not that great
If anyone is familiar with the Movie “O’ Brother Where Art Thou” Chris Thomas King played Robert “Tommy” Johnson.
He was in the movie where art though
Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson aren’t they same person
Exactly
Yep
@@AzAzeL.0.2 no
It’s interesting how people continuously think everything is just fake when dude SINGS IT IN MANY HIS SONGS. He literally said he sold his soul. Why is that so hard to believe? A better question is why people believe that the devil is fake? Then, why does ALL of his wives keep dying? It’s no coincidence.
famous artists til this day, still mention witch craft and the devil. travis scott for example. And people will still say its bs.
I took a college English class based on popular music through the years and it was much more of a history class on music, which I adored. We had a lecture about Robert Johnson and other influential blues artists. I don't recall my professor going as in depth about him as this video did (basically only talking about the infamous legend), so I appreciate it.
Was this cypress college
@@josue8784 nope
Can’t just never be black and Talented huh.
You never know.
no one said that aha
Well he did write a song calling it me and the devil
Pirate91 ard lets talk about em he said he sold his soul but yet he no being talked about like that
Yo shut up aint nobody said that
if selling your soul to the devil was real or that easy. 90% of people on earth would do that for fame and fortune without thinking twice
True
Nexus0Z True
But you have to already have some sort of look 👀 or talent
So that may bring it down a bit
Are you stupid m8
@@nathanb.8114 I don't believe in these kid of illusions. these people are paranoid who think everything they dream is real. and yes, I said it's not that easy, I mean although I believe satanists are delusional and stupid but they think by doing some cringy and disgusting crimes as ritual they posses the power or gain fortune by satan. but they gain no shit after all, they either die like an animal or spend rest of their lives in prison. that's all because of TV and movies propaganda which is being injected to masses by bumbass celebrities and their handlers. there is no real religion in this world, good or bad
Nexus0Z Another person chatting rubbish without even doubting themselves . “No religion good or bad”. You typing like you’ve experienced everything.
You can't sell your soul because your soul belongs to God
But the devil can deceive you into thinking you actually did sell your soul. Only Jesus can reveal the truth and save you from it. There’s plenty of witches testifying to this
I actually had no idea that this man existed, I only knew his name from the movie Crossroads, but that movie is based off of Robert. Very fascinating story of a man with what seems like unlimited guitar talent, I just got into guitar last year and the movie and Robert are some pretty big inspirations for me,
I didn't know about him until I saw an episode on Supernatural about him and his deal etc. ❤️
Thats how i learned. I just fed around until it sterted to sound like music. Then it all clicked as you say. Of course you have to have enough of a music iq to know what sounds work and dont together.
The show supernatural had an episode that was called crossroads blue it mentions this exact thing creepy 😮
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Do the entire club, man.
As Huey Freeman once said;
"What is there to gain if your soul is already lost?"
He has no soul to sell. He was just gifted. Hard work and a natural ability. No need to invoke the supernatural. No gods, no devils. Just hard work and talent.
They say "People Fear what they don't Understand...."🤷♂️💯
No fear, most intelligent people know there is evil in the world
@@lyleswavel320intelligent people dont dumb evil down to "since i don't understand it, must be the devil"
Agrred
"I won't ever sell my soooouuul"
"And I can back that"
Undrifted Pop he sold it
Undrifted Pop roddy
@@ZYZZZ1 😐oh
and I really wann know
@@AngryNoodle95 were you at at
are we just gonna ignore that his mom is 145 years old
Right 😂😂😂
George Washington is 288 I’m surprised he’s not 300 yet
Ong I was just bouta say that 😂
Bayou Baby3 it’s a joke you cannot take a joke
really?
that album captivated me in my youth...still does
He was young but Smart, He took those assumptions of selling his soul and ran with it just like these rappers today,,
You're dumb if you think artists today don't sell there souls for riches. Close minded sheep
@@lucidshotz6222 Yeah, he's close minded and yet your the one who immediately without provocation insults someone with a differing opinion from yours. What a pretentious hypocrite.
@@lucidshotz6222 Your Just Dumb Period, The Only Sheep here is the Hypocrites like you who love internet battling me over Imaginary figures you p.o.s
@@DrCooch you prolly tried so hard to sound smart. Obviously he was wrong in this topic. And when people are wrong in topics or don't even know what they're talking about you do correct them. If they wanna believe whatever after then that's on them. I had to dumb it down for you cuz you're not smart. You're just trying to be lol 🤣🤣💯💯💯
This is probably the most likely explanation
Whether Robert sold his soul to the devil or not, he has darn good and dark music to listen to. It is, i agree, that Robert's life was intense and sad at the same time, but how he stuck to going after his dream is inspirational! Goodbye, king of the delta blues
He had the pick of destiny
Lol