@@MainPrism I feel like Robert Johnson is one of those names that everybody who likes rock or blues knows but gets mentioned very rarely. Similar to Chuck Berry but even more so.
There’s been some research that concluded RJ’s recordings were probably in standard keys like G but the recordings were sped up to save recording media thus raising the pitch. The “slowed down” remastered tracks have a completely different feel and timbre not only the guitar but Johnson’s voice sounds way different.
The problem with that theory is that in one of his pics, I think from the Photo Booth, he clearly has a capo on the second fret. That would indicate he was in either Open G or D, and the capo on 2 made it Open A or E. If I recall right, “Dust My Broom” is his only song on Open E and the remainder of his non-standard songs are Open A. I doubt very much that the recordings were sped up and I 100% doubt that he tuned to A as this would likely damage a cheap guitar over time. He was in Open G with a capo on 2.
Also, people who knew Robert Johnson have commented that he didn't sound like the slowed down records. They say when he played he sounded like the original, faster recordings.
@@pontius2000 Fair evidence to support your claim, but _100% circumstantial_ . Players move their capos all the time depending on what song they are playing and what style they are playing in. The fact that the capo was pictured on his guitar at all means absolutely nothing. If what you had was a _film_ of him playing with the capo on a particular fret, then you would have direct evidence. He might have habitually carried his capo on that fret so that he did not lose it and so it would not put too much pressure on it's tensioning method. You have a good hypothesis. Nothing more. Same as the person to whom you were responding.
@@suncat5160 "People" also say he took a black cat bone to the crossroads and struck a deal with the devil. Both claims are hearsay. They are evidence that people 'say' all sorts of things. Nothing more.
@@zippitydoodah5693 no, I don’t have a hypothesis. The people claiming his recordings were sped up are the ones with the hypothesis. It is a fact that all of his non-standard songs except one are in Open A. It is also a fact that tuning a guitar to Open A puts a lot of strain on the guitar neck and strings. I have played in this tuning and have broken strings roughly 30% of the time that I tuned to Open A. These old blues player weren’t running to Guitar Center to replace strings. It is also fact that Open G was the most commonly used Open tuning and was used by everybody from Son House to Charlie Patton to Muddy Waters. It is also fact that a guitar tuned to Open G with a capo on 2 = Open A, and this puts no stress at all on the neck or strings. It’s a fact that Johnson was photographed with a capo in this exact position. So no, you misunderstand who’s the one with the “hypothesis”. Virtually every Robert Johnson expert agrees with me. The whole “recording was sped up” is the hypothesis that has no proof whatsoever to back it up and I would challenge you or anybody else to show evidence of even one pre-1940 blues player having a recording that was sped up. The other poster pointed out that Johnson’s contemporaries said he didn’t sound like the slowed down version. He’s referring to Johnson’s 2 closest associates Johnny Shines and Johnson’s “stepson” Robert Lockwood Jr. You saying they were making a hypothesis too?
@@yash4707 think about it if the devil gave us blues we wouldn't have rock at all and with out that grunge would never have ever been deemed acceptable
I don’t understand how this story became a myth. No, Robert Johnson didn’t sell his soul to the devil in order to become a better guitar player that’s just silly. He sold his soul to the devil in order to become a better motorcycle stuntman. That’s how the rider of ghosts was born everybody knows that!
it was/is just a common thing for my people to say about people who were exceptionally talented, especially musically. The same was said about my great-grand aunt who was the one that taught her daughter (Algia Mae Hinton) how to play guitar.
The reason for the legend of selling his soul to the devil was because Son House was a career alcoholic and couldn’t remember, lol. The Johnson who actually openly claimed to have sold his to the devil was TOMMY Johnson. It’s known that both Tommy and Robert (no relation) were heavily influenced by Son House and Charlie Patton. And it’s known that both House and Patton knew Tommy Johnson, at least peripherally. It’s questionable whether either of them knew Robert Johnson. It’s likely that everything Son House ever said about Robert was actually about Tommy since he knew Tommy, outlived both Johnson’s by many decades, and was a lifelong alcoholic with a bad memory.
I just master the moveable pentatonic scale. What do you think I should learn next. I’m also taking song recommendations for someone with about a year’s worth of experience on guitar.
A great youtube channel I would recommend is signals music studio. His videos are super great and easy to understand. He talks about chord progressions, scales, songwriting and a ton more.
Record an E7 chord. Learn to play the 5 CAGED positions of the Mixolydian scale over that chord. When you can do that, record a 3-chord, 12-bar Blues in E (E7-A7-B7). Once you can play that 3-chord Blues in E, move to all of the other keys.
Maybe... But the thing is his recordings were manipulated at some point being sped up creating that weird pitch. Sad, but very true. I've often wondered where music would have gone if someone hadn't pitched those recordings.
Before he became known , its said he disappeared for over a year going to Arkansas were he found a mentor . No one is sure who that was , but when he showed back up a completely different player, RJ was born.
I just think it’s odd there’s many different references to the devil tampering with mortals and stringed instruments (devil wears a suit and tie, the devil went down to Georgia, etc)
heres what i don't get : the devil can make your rich, powerful,beautiful, give you property as far as you can see ,ect... but jesue doent do shit for you. if you get boils,your kids die, aids,ect just have faith. haha then you get to live forever in a place thats pretty much like modern society... FOREVER. now where can i find the devil?
@@Gniggaaa yes he should music history would not be the same without him and he is a black man who inspired many black artist who in turn inspired many other people who were fans of the genre which was started by black people. Blues and rock and roll was black peoples music until it became more wide spread
I went up ( literally as it’s north of my home) to the delta and to the legendary ‘crossroads’ in Clarksdale MS a few weeks ago. The Delta Blues Museum there is quite an experience. It’s easy to see how the blues went mostly unheard of for so long as the delta is so spread out with the towns so isolated and traveling costs money of which was scarce amongst the local population back then . The great migration to northern cities like Chicago when mechanization of cotton farming eliminated the need for sharecroppers and field laborers proved to be a blessing in disguise by spreading the blues to the rest of the country . 🎶 🎸 It’s worth visiting Clarksdale if you’re a big blues enthusiast. That is all . 😎
Son House knew Robert Johnson and couldn't believe the improvement Johnson made in 6 months. He never practiced after that and always seemed to know how to play everything.
The real story behind the myth he sold his soul to the devil is nicely explained in the book "Robert Johnson: Lost and Found" If you're a fan it's well worth reading.
Robert Johnsons father was a preacher and so were his brother's. They told him he was playing devils music. But his grandfather encouraged him to play. Thats the crossroads. Itll always bother me that theyre are people who took that metaphor literally. Especially Clapton. Maybe he didn't believe it but he talked about it all the time and Robert Johnsons family has said they hadnt even heard the story until Clapton popularized it
There is a movie based on this! It’s called crossroads and Steve vai is in it (at the end though)shows how he sold his soul to the devil to learn blues. Great movie check it out one time! (It was made in the 80s)
In 2006, a medical practitioner, David Connell, suggested, on the basis of photographs showing Johnson's "unnaturally long fingers" and "one bad eye", that Johnson may have had Marfan syndrome, which could have both affected his guitar playing and contributed to his death due to aortic dissection.[
What's interesting is Robert Johnson wrote the song Sweet Home Chicago I guess because of the movie in The blues Brothers the song has more of the sociation with the blues Brothers than Robert Johnson
How in HELL did Mayer leap frog over the the HOTTEST version of Crossroads ever! Recorded and performed live in Atlanta Georgia 1976 at the Fabulous Fox Theater by the legendary band Lynyrd Skynyrd released on thier only live album. One More From The Road.
Buddy was killed by a spiked bottle of whiskey, another guy had told him the seal on the bottle was broken and that he shouldn't drink from it. Maybe he really did sell his soul that day
Let's slow down a bit with the "foundation" and the legends. That melody in Cross Road can be traced back to several older blues songs, as well as the general idea in the lyrics, and it's probably way older than what is recorded. He's continuing a tradition, not setting a foundation. Also, the devil crossroad legend is southern folklore in general, but in the case the first bluesman to use it was Tommy Johnson, not Robert.
Well let me tell you guys. When someone says he sold his soul to the devil, it means he sold his soul to his ego and he spend all his time and energy on practicing, not giving a fuck about anyone or anything else. Just u and your ego. That’s how u sell ur soul to the devil to learn or gain something
why don't we stick with the facts. Johnson didn'tsell his soul to anyone. He was a no talent hacks. He would offer to play in bars for free. He was so bad, bar's owners refused to let him in their bars even it was free. Johnson did in fact leave Mississippi. Most rock historians believe he away to take guitar and voice lessons. When he had improved, he went from an F grade to a C. During his life time he was not highly esteemed as a performer. In 1961 the crap box label he was with decided to sell several catalogs of musicians who were deceased. An executive at Columbia bought them and decided re release many of them, Johnson's recordings were among them. In the 60s, many young talented performers were sky rocketing to fame. Clapton Beck, Richards,even Bob Dylan. When these future megastars were asked what were your musical influences growing they all sited Robert Johnson. Next question, who the hell is Robert Johnson? That's how he gained notoriety. Robert Johnson did not become famous til 30 years after his death.
Slide guitar techniques were not a major element of blues incorporated into rock music. Rather, string bending, which probably originated with Django Reinhardt, who had to rely on 2 fingers to fret guitar solos due to a hand injury, was. Django resorted to bending strings and other techniques which acoustic delta and electric city blues artists later also used, copied, or independently developed. These blues artists and American rockabilly bands influenced young British musicians who incorporated both blues and rockabilly, along with basic 4 part harmony they got trained in from school and church to create 1960's rock. Such young British rockers, around 1964, were the major force to bring rock back as a popular genre after it had been brutaly banished from American radio waves around 1958/59. By 1971 and thereafter, blues guitar did continue to have an impact on rock, but it was mostly sidelined to brief solos in popular songs. Most young guitarists have since been heavily influenced by blues guitar despite it not being high on the pop charts. But what guitarists actually play on stage and in the studio for their band is usually very different from blues. There are a few super big rock bands that have become iconic for incorporating blues leads. But, in perspective, to rock bands that don't, they are a minority so much so that JM calls himself a bluesman and millineals don't even have a clue that he is neither blues nor rock but a player of pop so popular it has helped drive the final nails in the coffins of both blues and rock.
The crossroads is the Mississippi River is the Crossroad. Because of the name of the river, people think Mississippi ground is where the spring of inspirado from which the spirit of distrust manifests. The Eastern Arkansas river Delta is essentially a mirror to that of the wetern Mississippi Delta. However, because of the namesake of north Americas biggest river, along with Memphis TN (birthplace of rock and roll) being on the same side of the river, just north of South Haven MS. Arkansas never gets it's due credit. The cross road is in Arkansas. Most people don't know who Sister Rosetta Tharpe is, or the generation that came before her that influenced her way communicating music. Poor African Americans, and Poor Hillbillies and their commiseration at the crossroads of the Arkansas river Valley, the Ouachita Mtns, and the Mississippi Delta is the motherland of "the foundation". In the middle of nowhere Arkansas, it was not uncommon for poor blacks and whites to become friendly, break bread, make wine or liquor together, and of course, make music together. Elements of hillbilly folk wouldn't have DNA in that music otherwise. It was a beautiful marriage of common suffering between two different cultures of different backgrounds. Luckily the stylings lived on because it spread throughout the delta on both sides of the river because black people embraced it and it became known as black music. At that point, playing that sort of music as a white person was unacceptable in white communities. Jamming together in secrecy never really stopped altogether tho because so many these meetings were in the middle of nowhere. The inherent shared qualities couldn't hide forever tho, especially since so many people in the middle of nowhere loved the marriage of styles because they'd always heard it. The "father of country music" Jimmie Rodgers is a great example of when whites could finally openly embrace it...sort of. It wasn't exactly the same because he did some yodeling. But when he ain't yodeling....you be the judge of the "father of country music". Long live rock and roll. Don't forget us down in the Arkansas.
Clarksdale MS is where ‘the crossroads’ is when referring to a Robert Johnson. Everyone knows this. Twist and spin the story however you want to somehow move it to Arkansas . There may be some kind of crossroad story there but it’s definitely not the one referenced by Mr Johnson .
I know all the boomers who don’t know a whole lot about music, who think the Beatles and Eric Clapton and Rush and stuff are the greatest guys on earth, say “this music directly influenced modern rock” (and thusly metal, blues, jazz, any genre of guitar-centric music)… But do these guys even play an instrument? This ditty is not difficult by any means, and I can’t see the resemblance at all to, say, a catchy-ass, hummable Arghoslent riff, for example. Where’s the influence? Where’s the correlation between this twangy, slidey deal and the main theme from “Quelling the Simian Surge”?
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Love Robert Johnson man… his music is beautiful
Couldn't agree more! It's a damn shame that more people don't know who he is...
I wouldn’t listen to him bc I heard he sold his soul to the devil to play guitar, but Ik he was really really good at guitar
@@MainPrism I feel like Robert Johnson is one of those names that everybody who likes rock or blues knows but gets mentioned very rarely. Similar to Chuck Berry but even more so.
@@allbottledup9513 yea great point!
@@Jbeebe6 ... ha-!!!
We ALL share ONE sole, oh-? ...
There’s been some research that concluded RJ’s recordings were probably in standard keys like G but the recordings were sped up to save recording media thus raising the pitch. The “slowed down” remastered tracks have a completely different feel and timbre not only the guitar but Johnson’s voice sounds way different.
The problem with that theory is that in one of his pics, I think from the Photo Booth, he clearly has a capo on the second fret. That would indicate he was in either Open G or D, and the capo on 2 made it Open A or E. If I recall right, “Dust My Broom” is his only song on Open E and the remainder of his non-standard songs are Open A. I doubt very much that the recordings were sped up and I 100% doubt that he tuned to A as this would likely damage a cheap guitar over time. He was in Open G with a capo on 2.
Also, people who knew Robert Johnson have commented that he didn't sound like the slowed down records. They say when he played he sounded like the original, faster recordings.
@@pontius2000 Fair evidence to support your claim, but _100% circumstantial_ . Players move their capos all the time depending on what song they are playing and what style they are playing in. The fact that the capo was pictured on his guitar at all means absolutely nothing. If what you had was a _film_ of him playing with the capo on a particular fret, then you would have direct evidence. He might have habitually carried his capo on that fret so that he did not lose it and so it would not put too much pressure on it's tensioning method. You have a good hypothesis. Nothing more. Same as the person to whom you were responding.
@@suncat5160 "People" also say he took a black cat bone to the crossroads and struck a deal with the devil. Both claims are hearsay. They are evidence that people 'say' all sorts of things. Nothing more.
@@zippitydoodah5693 no, I don’t have a hypothesis. The people claiming his recordings were sped up are the ones with the hypothesis. It is a fact that all of his non-standard songs except one are in Open A. It is also a fact that tuning a guitar to Open A puts a lot of strain on the guitar neck and strings. I have played in this tuning and have broken strings roughly 30% of the time that I tuned to Open A. These old blues player weren’t running to Guitar Center to replace strings. It is also fact that Open G was the most commonly used Open tuning and was used by everybody from Son House to Charlie Patton to Muddy Waters. It is also fact that a guitar tuned to Open G with a capo on 2 = Open A, and this puts no stress at all on the neck or strings. It’s a fact that Johnson was photographed with a capo in this exact position. So no, you misunderstand who’s the one with the “hypothesis”. Virtually every Robert Johnson expert agrees with me. The whole “recording was sped up” is the hypothesis that has no proof whatsoever to back it up and I would challenge you or anybody else to show evidence of even one pre-1940 blues player having a recording that was sped up. The other poster pointed out that Johnson’s contemporaries said he didn’t sound like the slowed down version. He’s referring to Johnson’s 2 closest associates Johnny Shines and Johnson’s “stepson” Robert Lockwood Jr. You saying they were making a hypothesis too?
Johnson’s slide work on ‘Come on in my kitchen’ is sublime. Chills every time. God bless him, wherever he is.
He's with Satan
@@mikebastiat Johnson didn’t die. Satan wanted a guitar lesson.
Down down baby
I think Come On In My Kitchen is my favorite Robert Johnson song. It's going to be raining outdoors 🎵🎶
Man that‘s a great story
I can't believe you nailed that tone🤩!
Sold his soul to Batman
The devil gave us blues to grunge god damn
huh?
@@yash4707 think about it if the devil gave us blues we wouldn't have rock at all and with out that grunge would never have ever been deemed acceptable
@@gavensingh9010 devil didnt give us blues tho…
@@yash4707 yeah but it’s the legend behind blues
God Damn. Amen.
dont call him Rj bruh 😭
lol right?? That was weird
What's so weird about that?
@@iggystardust9236 Weird to give a legend a buddy nickname like that
@@LAYNESTALEYISAGOD Call EVH by his full name and title every time, brahbrah 😅
@@icankillbugs Far different lol.
He got perfect cell in the back 💀
Ever been to the crossroads at midnight under the full moon with nothing but a bottle of Brandy and a guitar? It's an experience.
Made a heck of a movie too.
(The movie was called crossroads with Ralph macchio)
Don't forget about Steve Vai! Not only he was in it but also wrote most of the guitar parts
@@kenkryptic5610 I didn't forget but I thought it was more interesting that the karate kid was in a movie about a blues musician
Awesome movie
Steve vai defeated steve vai at the end.
@@Dime_time333 Machhio had great chops! In Karate kid.
Awesome content, thank you!!
I don’t understand how this story became a myth. No, Robert Johnson didn’t sell his soul to the devil in order to become a better guitar player that’s just silly. He sold his soul to the devil in order to become a better motorcycle stuntman. That’s how the rider of ghosts was born everybody knows that!
it was/is just a common thing for my people to say about people who were exceptionally talented, especially musically. The same was said about my great-grand aunt who was the one that taught her daughter (Algia Mae Hinton) how to play guitar.
@@jazmineyazmin Your channel page states that you are a musician, too. Given your heritage I'd be very interested to hear you play.
You looked very pleased with yourself hitting that lick at the end. And you should. You played it smooth. o7
you played that awesome dude frig yah!
From Rolling fork, MS right down the road from the crossroads. Definitely something special in the delta
Yes indeed. Sorry to hear about the awful tornadoes.
Why do these Gen Z folks disrespect our icons. His name is Robert Johnson, not RJ. Have some respect
That's right ‼️♥️
0:31 -- love the imagery with the horned dark figure in a business suit ! :D
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An old friend of mine was the barber at this hotel and there are some small displays commemorating these recordings
Was it really recorded at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio?
i love this song
The reason for the legend of selling his soul to the devil was because Son House was a career alcoholic and couldn’t remember, lol. The Johnson who actually openly claimed to have sold his to the devil was TOMMY Johnson. It’s known that both Tommy and Robert (no relation) were heavily influenced by Son House and Charlie Patton. And it’s known that both House and Patton knew Tommy Johnson, at least peripherally. It’s questionable whether either of them knew Robert Johnson. It’s likely that everything Son House ever said about Robert was actually about Tommy since he knew Tommy, outlived both Johnson’s by many decades, and was a lifelong alcoholic with a bad memory.
Man you truly nailed every nuance of the riff brother! But that tone?!? Damn, it even sounds like an old analogue recording!!! What’s involved?
I just master the moveable pentatonic scale. What do you think I should learn next. I’m also taking song recommendations for someone with about a year’s worth of experience on guitar.
Start improvising in various keys, also learn blues scale and major pentatonic
@@peterthirdandthebridges Thanks!
A great youtube channel I would recommend is signals music studio. His videos are super great and easy to understand. He talks about chord progressions, scales, songwriting and a ton more.
Try learning some arpeggios
Record an E7 chord.
Learn to play the 5 CAGED positions of the Mixolydian scale over that chord.
When you can do that, record a 3-chord, 12-bar Blues in E (E7-A7-B7).
Once you can play that 3-chord Blues in E, move to all of the other keys.
Maybe... But the thing is his recordings were manipulated at some point being sped up creating that weird pitch.
Sad, but very true.
I've often wondered where music would have gone if someone hadn't pitched those recordings.
Here in the comments I saw someone saying that there are slowed versions of Robert Johnson's songs and everything chnages, ven his voice
Your best video. Do more like this.
Nice playing, man 🎉
I hear "Dead shrimp blues" in modern music more than any other of his songs. But I think that particular song/riff is even older than that.
Before he became known , its said he disappeared for over a year going to Arkansas were he found a mentor . No one is sure who that was , but when he showed back up a completely different player, RJ was born.
I’ve heard the same…except it was further down in Mississippi near the Alabama line..
And that's where the Devil came in😅
Ike Zimmerman in Beauregard MS taught Mr Johnson mostly at night in the local cemetery.
Living it
I just think it’s odd there’s many different references to the devil tampering with mortals and stringed instruments (devil wears a suit and tie, the devil went down to Georgia, etc)
heres what i don't get : the devil can make your rich, powerful,beautiful, give you property as far as you can see ,ect... but jesue doent do shit for you. if you get boils,your kids die, aids,ect just have faith. haha then you get to live forever in a place thats pretty much like modern society... FOREVER. now where can i find the devil?
Because people who play those types of instruments often lead promiscuous life styles. The blues was called devil music, even in Robert Johnsons day.
Never knew that San Antonio had a big connection to this...
Me neither!
This is one of your better shorts
I'm still more partial to the cream version, but only cuz I can play it without sounding awful.
You played that phrase perfectly.
One of the old souls that still roams the hotel love San Antonio so haunted
Nice playing and nice jaguar!
Actually the crossroads story was one told about him beforehand, he basically just embaced it.
I like that you recognize black culture n music
This is just music history no need to bring race into it
Thats funnt coming from someone with your username lol
@@Gniggaaa yes he should music history would not be the same without him and he is a black man who inspired many black artist who in turn inspired many other people who were fans of the genre which was started by black people. Blues and rock and roll was black peoples music until it became more wide spread
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@@Gniggaaa why’s he not allowed to recognise African American cultural achievements?
This is the one
I went up ( literally as it’s north of my home) to the delta and to the legendary ‘crossroads’ in Clarksdale MS a few weeks ago. The Delta Blues Museum there is quite an experience. It’s easy to see how the blues went mostly unheard of for so long as the delta is so spread out with the towns so isolated and traveling costs money of which was scarce amongst the local population back then . The great migration to northern cities like Chicago when mechanization of cotton farming eliminated the need for sharecroppers and field laborers proved to be a blessing in disguise by spreading the blues to the rest of the country . 🎶 🎸
It’s worth visiting Clarksdale if you’re a big blues enthusiast.
That is all . 😎
Just now discovered this band and they sound amazing. The lead singer also give Debbie harry vibes.
Am I missing something? Which band?
not a band it's a single person
Oh, I’m sorry. I meant to comment this on a another video. Sorry for the confusion.
What!? There's another picture of him in the photobooth!?
That mic tho 🙌🏼
Well done
The tiny guitar mic is cool bro.
Son House knew Robert Johnson and couldn't believe the improvement Johnson made in 6 months. He never practiced after that and always seemed to know how to play everything.
If he didn’t, gosh darn he did something. Man was a literal pioneer
Ah, yes, the great story of Robert Johnson selling his soul to batman at the crossroads
Open G tuning is super fun!
My grandpa actually told me this he's loves blues but apparently when he was gone he met a pro guitar player who taught him
The real story behind the myth he sold his soul to the devil is nicely explained in the book "Robert Johnson: Lost and Found" If you're a fan it's well worth reading.
He just practiced and practiced. He died missing with dude man's old lady
Robert Johnsons father was a preacher and so were his brother's. They told him he was playing devils music. But his grandfather encouraged him to play. Thats the crossroads. Itll always bother me that theyre are people who took that metaphor literally. Especially Clapton. Maybe he didn't believe it but he talked about it all the time and Robert Johnsons family has said they hadnt even heard the story until Clapton popularized it
Wouldnt have sold my soul for that riff.
"Altered music history"?! Don't know what Tchaikovsky could think about these words
There is a movie based on this! It’s called crossroads and Steve vai is in
it (at the end though)shows how he sold his soul to the devil to learn blues. Great movie check it out one time! (It was made in the 80s)
There’s an amazing guitar battle at the end but I’ll leave it up to you to see it🤘
And Ry Cooder. Never forget Ry Cooder.
John Mayer? LFMMFAO!!!
In 2006, a medical practitioner, David Connell, suggested, on the basis of photographs showing Johnson's "unnaturally long fingers" and "one bad eye", that Johnson may have had Marfan syndrome, which could have both affected his guitar playing and contributed to his death due to aortic dissection.[
It hurts deep in my core when you call Robert Johnson "RJ".
What's interesting is Robert Johnson wrote the song Sweet Home Chicago I guess because of the movie in The blues Brothers the song has more of the sociation with the blues Brothers than Robert Johnson
How in HELL did Mayer leap frog over the the HOTTEST version of Crossroads ever! Recorded and performed live in Atlanta Georgia 1976 at the Fabulous Fox Theater by the legendary band Lynyrd Skynyrd released on thier only live album.
One More From The Road.
Clapton killed on Crossroads!
Buddy was killed by a spiked bottle of whiskey, another guy had told him the seal on the bottle was broken and that he shouldn't drink from it. Maybe he really did sell his soul that day
❤️🔥🖤
Cool
The crossroads is a metohor about life and witch path do want to choose
Impossible to overstate the importance of Robert Johnson. But what is it with the little guitar that is a microphone? Never saw one of those before.
eric clapton is my biggest influence
Now try it on an acoustic for that same sound…
I can’t listen to a lot of old delta blues.
I’ve tried but it’s just too haunting to me…
Mikey, do a blues album, I will buy it
Let's slow down a bit with the "foundation" and the legends.
That melody in Cross Road can be traced back to several older blues songs, as well as the general idea in the lyrics, and it's probably way older than what is recorded. He's continuing a tradition, not setting a foundation.
Also, the devil crossroad legend is southern folklore in general, but in the case the first bluesman to use it was Tommy Johnson, not Robert.
Lemon song in that intro
Well let me tell you guys. When someone says he sold his soul to the devil, it means he sold his soul to his ego and he spend all his time and energy on practicing, not giving a fuck about anyone or anything else. Just u and your ego. That’s how u sell ur soul to the devil to learn or gain something
That first pic makes it look like he was Batman.
why don't we stick with the facts. Johnson didn'tsell his soul to anyone. He was a no talent hacks. He would offer to play in bars for free. He was so bad, bar's owners refused to let him in their bars even it was free. Johnson did in fact leave Mississippi. Most rock historians believe he away to take guitar and voice lessons. When he had improved, he went from an F grade to a C. During his life time he was not highly esteemed as a performer. In 1961 the crap box label he was with decided to sell several catalogs of musicians who were deceased. An executive at Columbia bought them and decided re release many of them, Johnson's recordings were among them. In the 60s, many young talented performers were sky rocketing to fame. Clapton Beck, Richards,even Bob Dylan. When these future megastars were asked what were your musical influences growing they all sited Robert Johnson. Next question, who the hell is Robert Johnson? That's how he gained notoriety. Robert Johnson did not become famous til 30 years after his death.
Slide guitar techniques were not a major element of blues incorporated into rock music. Rather, string bending, which probably originated with Django Reinhardt, who had to rely on 2 fingers to fret guitar solos due to a hand injury, was. Django resorted to bending strings and other techniques which acoustic delta and electric city blues artists later also used, copied, or independently developed. These blues artists and American rockabilly bands influenced young British musicians who incorporated both blues and rockabilly, along with basic 4 part harmony they got trained in from school and church to create 1960's rock. Such young British rockers, around 1964, were the major force to bring rock back as a popular genre after it had been brutaly banished from American radio waves around 1958/59. By 1971 and thereafter, blues guitar did continue to have an impact on rock, but it was mostly sidelined to brief solos in popular songs. Most young guitarists have since been heavily influenced by blues guitar despite it not being high on the pop charts. But what guitarists actually play on stage and in the studio for their band is usually very different from blues. There are a few super big rock bands that have become iconic for incorporating blues leads. But, in perspective, to rock bands that don't, they are a minority so much so that JM calls himself a bluesman and millineals don't even have a clue that he is neither blues nor rock but a player of pop so popular it has helped drive the final nails in the coffins of both blues and rock.
Y is everybody so fascinated with my people
Been to those crossroads on 51 a million times.... no devil there but drunks
Why's no one gonna speak about how he sold his soul to the devil
Jack Butler
and the first member of club 27
Things that are true don't need anyone to believe them. They just ARE.... Postcards from Hell by the Wood Brothers.... tells it all
The crossroads is the Mississippi River is the Crossroad. Because of the name of the river, people think Mississippi ground is where the spring of inspirado from which the spirit of distrust manifests. The Eastern Arkansas river Delta is essentially a mirror to that of the wetern Mississippi Delta. However, because of the namesake of north Americas biggest river, along with Memphis TN (birthplace of rock and roll) being on the same side of the river, just north of South Haven MS. Arkansas never gets it's due credit. The cross road is in Arkansas. Most people don't know who Sister Rosetta Tharpe is, or the generation that came before her that influenced her way communicating music. Poor African Americans, and Poor Hillbillies and their commiseration at the crossroads of the Arkansas river Valley, the Ouachita Mtns, and the Mississippi Delta is the motherland of "the foundation". In the middle of nowhere Arkansas, it was not uncommon for poor blacks and whites to become friendly, break bread, make wine or liquor together, and of course, make music together. Elements of hillbilly folk wouldn't have DNA in that music otherwise. It was a beautiful marriage of common suffering between two different cultures of different backgrounds. Luckily the stylings lived on because it spread throughout the delta on both sides of the river because black people embraced it and it became known as black music. At that point, playing that sort of music as a white person was unacceptable in white communities. Jamming together in secrecy never really stopped altogether tho because so many these meetings were in the middle of nowhere. The inherent shared qualities couldn't hide forever tho, especially since so many people in the middle of nowhere loved the marriage of styles because they'd always heard it. The "father of country music" Jimmie Rodgers is a great example of when whites could finally openly embrace it...sort of. It wasn't exactly the same because he did some yodeling. But when he ain't yodeling....you be the judge of the "father of country music". Long live rock and roll. Don't forget us down in the Arkansas.
Clarksdale MS is where ‘the crossroads’ is when referring to a Robert Johnson. Everyone knows this. Twist and spin the story however you want to somehow move it to Arkansas . There may be some kind of crossroad story there but it’s definitely not the one referenced by Mr Johnson .
I’m a new guitar player
What’s that thing you put on your ring finger?
I hope he kept the reciept
I think he practiced a lot. No magic involved. 😅
You didn't really play it though, you just played the turnaround. Would have been nice if we at least got a full 12 bars lol
This story is so prolific they accused Faust of the same thing.
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He didn't sell his soul you can't, god said so, Robert got tricked the devil he is the master of lies after all.
Another one is defenetly Red hot, pure proto rock n roll
Everything big band ever and to play there pound of flash
Did you just put John Mayer in the same sentence as Elmore James and Eric Clapton? Just kidding. Great video :)
Oh dear lord do not even include John Mayer in this conversation
He sold his soul for tht. He got ripped off
I don't remember seeing that picture of him with his head tilted and smiling.
He called him "RJ" 😂😂
Steve miller band also covered his song come on into my kitchen
I know all the boomers who don’t know a whole lot about music, who think the Beatles and Eric Clapton and Rush and stuff are the greatest guys on earth, say “this music directly influenced modern rock” (and thusly metal, blues, jazz, any genre of guitar-centric music)… But do these guys even play an instrument? This ditty is not difficult by any means, and I can’t see the resemblance at all to, say, a catchy-ass, hummable Arghoslent riff, for example. Where’s the influence? Where’s the correlation between this twangy, slidey deal and the main theme from “Quelling the Simian Surge”?