Robert Johnson
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The legendary "King of the Delta Blues", Robert Johnson is one of the most revered and mythologised musicians in rock history. Born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi in 1911, Johnson was a freight-jumping, rambling, harmonica player and bumbling guitarist until he disappeared for a short while and returned with an incredible new guitar technique. The fable has it that Johnson went to the crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in return for his new skills - and the bluesman always played up to the image, creating the persona of a lonesome, troubled drifter with "hellhounds on his trail". The 29 songs that he recorded between 1936 and 1937 sold very few copies at the time, but went on to have a huge influence on the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, B.B. King and almost every blues guitarist since. His tracks Love In Vain, Cross Road Blues, Sweet Home Chicago and Hellhound On My Trail were all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and have become cornerstones of rock'n'roll; but his death remains an enduring mystery. Accounts differ wildly, but according to folklore Johnson died aged 27 after being poisoned by the husband of a woman he was flirting with and was last seen convulsing and howling at the moon.
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- I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
- Come On In My Kitchen
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Traveling Riverside Blues
- Cross Road Blues
- Love in Vain
- Terraplane Blues
- Kind Hearted Woman Blues
- Malted Milk
- Milkcow's Calf Blues
- When You Got a Good Friend
- They're Red Hot
- Dead Shrimp Blues
- Walking Blues
- Drunken Hearted Man
- Honeymoon Blues
- Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
- Schubert: Nachthelle, D. 892 featuring John Eliot Gardiner
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
