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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You had me at the title.

man dig anything robert johnson, but critic tha I am, as much as John Hammond Jr. is mediocre cool, he's like the cracker equiv, of Louis Armstrong-style uncle-tommin'!He da Vanilla Ice of Blues....


Reminds me of Zappa....
A foolish young man
From a middle class fam'ly
Started singin' the blues
'Cause he thought it was manly
Now he talks like the Kingfish
("Saffiiiee!")
From Amos 'n Andy
("Holy mack'l dere...Holy mack'l
dere!")
He tells you that chitlins...
Well, they taste just like candy
He thinks that he's got
De whole thang down
From the Nivea Lotion
To de Royal Crown

Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis

white folks...hrummPPPH!?

Sweet..was gonna netflix this.

Great post...of course once again choggie totally ruined it for me with his idiotic rambling post. Is there an ignore feature here at sift so I can just put him on ignore and then he'll fade back to whatever hole he crawled out of? I've said it before, Sift is a great site, but it's just ruined by some individuals. I certainly don't want to censor him as I'm sure everyone else here thinks he's just fantastic.

*discard

Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter farhad2000)