Episode No. 127 was particularly special because it was dedicated to the unique bluesmanowi - Robert Johnson Leroyowi, to mark the upcoming centenary of his birth, as we all know which falls on 8 May 2011 . In addition, part of the concert we heard our good friend satyrbluesowego, Slidin 'Slim. Presenting the recordings of this broadcast was not accidental, since April 30 this year at a special ceremony in Stockholm, is dedicated to Robert Johnson, Slim received the distinction of "Bluesman of the Year in Sweden."
ended up voting for a blog, which has the most appeal to you fell in March. The results, as usual, at the end of the post, and of course you can already cast their votes in the April poll.
ONE HOUR 20:05 - 21:00
Robert Johnson CD
Fri "The Complete Recordings" (Columbia 1990)
"Kindhearted Woman Blues "[2:53] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 1 CD-1 (in the program 1),
Big Head Blues Club CD
Fri "100 Years Of Robert Johnson" (Big Records, 2011)
"Come On In My Kitchen" [4:30] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 1 (in the program 2),
"Cross Road Blues" [5:38] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 4 (in the program 3),
"Ramblin 'On My Mind" [4:51] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 2 (in the program 4),
"When You Got a Good Friend "[4:02] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 3 (in the program 5),
"Last Fair Deal Gone Done" [5:12] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 8 (in the program 6),
Richie Kotzen CD
Fri "Bi-Polar Blues" (Shrapnel Records, 1999)
"They're Red Hot" [3:46] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 3 (in program 7),
"From Four Till Late" [4:55] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 7 (in the program 8),
Blindside Blues Band CD
Fri "Smokehouse Sessions" (Grooveyard Records, 2009)
"Ramblin 'On My Mind" [6:46] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 5 (in the program 9),
"Crossroads 69" [8:09] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 9 (in the program 10),
SECOND TIME 21:08 - 22:00
Robert Lockwood Jr.. CD
Fri "Delta Crossroads" (Telarc 2000)
"Little Queen Of Spades" [2:11] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 7 (in the program 11),
Slidin 'Slim & The Soulbastards} {part of the concert CD BOX
Fri "Live at Satyrblues 2008" (OKO 2009)
"Intro" [2:05] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 1 (in the program 12),
"Devil In Disguise [4:11] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 2 (in the program 13),
"You Called Me Up" [3:44] [Comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 4 (in the program 14),
"Please Tell Me" [2:50] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 9 (in the program 15),
Circle Of Silence "[3:32] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 10 (in the program 16),
"Somebody That I Wish I Was Dead" [4:25] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 12 (in the program 17),
"Brand New Face" [5:24] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] track # 13 (in program 18),
Slidin' Slim
DEMO (2010)
"Right Wing Blues" [3:39] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] (w audycji 19),
"This Is not Drinkin' Master '[04:22] [comp. Slidin 'Slim] with Jimmy Z (w audycji 20),
Bjorn Berge
CD pt. "Lllustrated Man" (Farm 2002)
"Travelling Riverside Blues" [3:27] [comp. R. Johnson] utwór No 8 (w audycji 21),
Sammy Vomacka
CD Fri "Ragtime, Blues & Jazz Guitar" (Wonderland Records, 1998)
"Steady Rolling Man" [2:02] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 1 (in the program 22),
"Sweet Home Chicago" [3:04] [comp. R. Johnson] track # 2 (in the program 23),
Big Head Blues Club CD
Fri "100 Years Of Robert Johnson" (Big Records, 2011)
"Kindhearted Woman Blues" [4:08] [comp. R. Johnson] free No. 6 (in the program 24).
Robert Leroy Johnson is a legendary figure in both portable and literal sense. His legend builds on the one hand the status of one of the most significant, and perhaps most important in blues history, whose legacy and influence on subsequent generations of a century after his death and have a priceless value and more importantly - she is still growing. On the other hand, everything we know about Robert Johnson comes from a variety of stories, applications, or conjecture and is not clearly attested biographical facts, making Robert the form of a mysterious, esoteric or at the end of legendary. Very aptly put it, Martin Scorsese, "The thing about Robert Johnson was That he only existed on his records. He was pure legend." Multitudes
researchers, biographers, scholars, historians and fans in the end, trying to look for information on Robert across the Mississippi Delta and Texas, which is apparently where he stayed, and consequently most of the data that has been obtained is fragmentary and based mainly on circumstantial evidence, conjecture, or come the so-called. second-hand and in no way they can verify that is the shortest, most saying niedługiego Johnson is a living legend. As often happens with legends from time to time there are new facts, someone is looking for sensationalism, trying to earn them and get publicity. For example, someone announced that Robert has a birth certificate, someone tried to sell on eBay, "Robert Johnson's guitar," and someone else to boast that no previously unknown picture of the artist. You can be sure that in time, will appear more and more of this type of "sensationalism." Of course, from time to time there are more recent publications describing Johnson's life and they also discover new events. However, we still have no clear information even if the place of burial music. There are three hypotheses: one says that Robert was buried in a cemetery near Morgan City, Mississippi, near Greenwood in an unmarked grave. According to the second version of Johnson was buried in a cemetery near the Payne Chapel in Quito, near the Mississippi, while Stephen Laver recent studies suggest that the artist lies under a big tree in the cemetery at Little Zion Church in Greenwood. But the most interesting in all this is part of the song "Me And The Devil" in which Robert said: "Baby, I Do not Care Where You bury my body when I'm dead and gone." Is lifetime predicted this situation?
Unexplained is the fact, Johnson's death. Surely you know that died 16 August 1938, but what was the cause of death remains a mystery. Frequently it is said that Robert was poisoned by strychnine husband woman with whom he flirted in the juke joincie in Greenwood, where he performed. Witnesses claim that the musician died in convulsions, and his condition worsened over three days. Tom Graves - in the pages of a very interesting book about Robert Johnson, titled "Crossroads: The Life and Legend of Robert Johnson "- based on expert opinion disputes this view. Such claims that strychnine is very bitter, which could be sensed even in strong alcohol, and death caused by strychnine in a few hours, not days. This information confirmed the same kind of "Honeyboy" Edwards in the commentary for Guitar World as saying that if it was strychnine, Robert cierpiałby not for three days. Also, the document that is alleged death of Robert Johnson's act contains a lot of controversy. Careful we recommend the following two interesting articles on the blog: http://www.tdblues.com/?p=157 and http://www.tdblues.com/?p=215 . The author examines in some detail the circumstances of his death and examines the death certificate mentioned earlier, rising to as interesting as the controversial proposals. But who knows, maybe there is some part of the truth.
greatest and most sinister legend that is shrouded figure of Robert Johnson is the sudden change from the average journeyman guitar in the six strings of a true champion as he was at that time. Robert as a young boy living on the plantation had a burning desire: to become a great blues musician. At that time, his guitar mentor was Son House, who later recalled how, Robert did not prophesied music career. Johnson resigned his teacher left and disappeared, what happens in those days it was not surprising. But the strange and almost incredible was that after several months, Robert returned from his wanderings as a guitarist now Featuring unprecedented for that time technique. And that brings us to the legend, because neither the House nor the other musicians could not explain this metamorphosis. In the 60s of the twentieth century, it was Son House told the story of Pete Weldingowi, explaining that the mastery of the instrument in such a short time was made possible thanks to a pact with the devil. This was supposed to take place at the intersection of U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 49, where Robert Johnson had sold his soul to the devil in exchange for which he was talented. Anyway took the witness the following quote from the previously quoted the song "Me And The Devil Blues":
"Early this mornin '
When You knocked upon my door Early this
mornin', ooh
When you knocked upon my door And I
said "Hello Satan,
I believe it's time to go."
But even here there are a lot of controversy, because the first is given some other intersection conclusion that dark pact (U.S. Highway 8 and U.S. Highway 1), and still other stories say that the pact was concluded at the crossroads not only in the cemetery, which recalls the story about another musician from the Delta, namely Ike'u Zinnermanie, who played guitar sitting at midnight in the cemetery headstone. We also know that Zinnerman guitar was one of Johnson's mentors. The story I told Son House was not the first of its kind in the Delta. Just to mention a man named Tommy Johnson (not related to Robert), who much earlier boasted that he had made a pact at the crossroads of a tall man appears at midnight. So we have another unexplained legend, which is also an interesting way the author relates to the aforementioned blog. Read it if you are interested in another look at the figure of Robert Johnson.
course unexplained stories of Robert Johnson will find much more and probably will appear more recent. One thing is certain, however: the mystery of his life Robert took to the grave and you never know what really happened. What followed was 29 tracks that is an inspiration to future generations not only the bluesmen, as evidenced by even the handful of recordings, which redactor presented on the air. As we have heard - the music of Robert get so far genre artists like Richie Kotzen and Sammy Vomacka whether Onesko and Big Mike Head Todd. It is this last that is, Todd Park Mohr, organized the recording session under the banner of Big Head Blues Club, which in addition to his band, The Monsters, among others invited blues greats such as BB King, Charlie Musselwhite, Hubert Sumlin, Ruthie Foster and David "Honeyboy" Edwards, to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Master. The album had a chance to listen to in large parts of the program because it constituted the backbone of Music section. Assessment of the value of this exercise is best left to each individual. We can not help the impression that the design represented by the Big Head Todd, no doubt value of the recordings were just invited guests.
only permanent position that is part of the concert was also in some sense associated with the person of Robert Johnson. As mentioned at the beginning of post Bluesman of the Year 2010 in Sweden Slidin 'Slim or Landelius Anders received the award at a gala evening is dedicated to the timeless artist from Mississippi. Probably many Blues Attack track especially for those who are familiar with their performances at Slim's Satyrbluesie There is a particular pleasure from this fact, because they can personally contribute to victory Anders, voting for him in an online poll, while presented in a program called the concert a great time with the 9th edition of Satyrbluesa:)
At the end of blogging, of course, the results of voting in March: