✨ A passionate rendition of a solid Delta blues standard
Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-1949)
Leadbelly

as long as i'm not later portrayed by Ralph Macchio, i'm good yeah...

(for all the cheese in that movie, it's still got 2 or 3 incredibly memorable moments that had a hand in my try at guitar playing as a youth)


>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^pho3n1x:
I'd sell my soul to be able to play harp like that...

Well son, there's a certain crossroads. Lies just south of Clarksdale Mississippi. Where Highway 61 and Highway 49 meet is the spot where the King of the Delta Blues, Mr. Robert Johnson, made his deal with Old Scratch himself- you might know him better as the Devil.
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>> ^pho3n1x:

I'd sell my soul to be able to play harp like that...


Well son, there's a certain crossroads. Lies just south of Clarksdale Mississippi. Where Highway 61 and Highway 49 meet is the spot where the King of the Delta Blues, Mr. Robert Johnson, made his deal with Old Scratch himself- you might know him better as the Devil.

http://g.co/maps/kgu25

Get yourself there and you can have what you want, but are you really willing to pay the price?

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In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I thought you had misspelled Siouxsie Sioux there . Nice song, I liked it. As you've probably guessed from my avatar, I'm very fond of Dylan. Vintage rock, especially late 60s and the 70s, is what I love the most. Also a big fan of early hiphop, delta blues, classical music and LOTS of other stuff

and tim burton?
i have gotten better at assigning channels,i noticed i didnt assign rock-n-roll for some when i should have.
im not that versed in hip-hop.breakbeats/progressive house/trance..but hip hop?not so much.
now delta blues?
buddy..have i got some treats for YOU!
classical?pretty versed there also.
ill send ya a shout when i post some newer rock that i think you may enjoy,considering you already are pretty knowledgable on classic rock.
till then.
namaste.

I thought you had misspelled Siouxsie Sioux there . Nice song, I liked it. As you've probably guessed from my avatar, I'm very fond of Dylan. Vintage rock, especially late 60s and the 70s, is what I love the most. Also a big fan of early hiphop, delta blues, classical music and LOTS of other stuff

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In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Industrial isn't really my kind of thing. It lacks the love/emotion. As does nudey bars

In reply to this comment by enoch:
In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Congrats on the gold Keep posting those obscure rock vids and you'll make me a happy man!
thanks bud!
no worries on the rock my friend;;
former dj for a nudey bar,i got tons /grins
you like industrial at all?
http://www.videosift.com/video/KMFDM-WW3-what-i-declare-on-all-wingnuts

yeah..it was a crazy scene,twenty years ago for me,but thats where i got into so many different kinds of music.
my first love was sabbath,then floyd..still are actually.
hmmm..how about indie/folk rock?
http://www.videosift.com/video/susie-suh-light-on-my-shoulder
she was 21 when she recorded this,plays and writes her own material.
the video is meh..but her first EP was fantastic!

>> ^netean:
the squeaking of the guitar strings is nothing but sloppy, lazy playing...
lift your damn fingers off the fretboard- this sound is like nails on a blackboard

In classical guitar, the sound may be undesired but something like acoustic rock, or delta blues, it is a very common sound. I think Robert Johnson would agree...but what does he know?

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Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) is among the most famous Delta Blues musicians and arguably the most influential. He is an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Considered by some to be the "Grandfather of Rock-and-Roll," his vocal phrasing, original songs, and guitar style influenced a range of musicians, including Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, who called Johnson "the most important blues musician who ever lived."

Of all the great blues musicians, Johnson was probably the most obscure. All that is known of him for certain is that he recorded 29 songs; he died young; and he was considered one of the greatest bluesmen of the Mississippi Delta.

There are five significant dates in Johnson's life: Monday, Thursday and Friday, November 23, 26, and 27, 1936, he was in San Antonio, Texas, at a recording session. Seven months later, on Saturday and Sunday, June 19–20, 1937, he was in Dallas at another session. Everything else about his life is an attempt at reconstruction. Director Martin Scorsese says in his foreword to Alan Greenberg's filmscript Love In Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson, "The thing about Robert Johnson was that he only existed on his records. He was pure legend."

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