robert johnson,mississippi delta blues,crossroads,guitar Robert Johnson - Me and the Devil Blues

Robert Johnson - Me and the Devil Blues

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Robert Johnson has had a major influence on much of the music we listen to today. A lot of us just don't know it :)

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...and only recorded a total of 34 sides, in a little over 7 months in 1936-7, in San Antonio and Dallas, respectively......and got paid dick for it....then made good on the deal with the devil in August 1938 @ age 27, falling ill after playing a party and dying four days later....whodunnit???

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many think it was an angry husband. He was, by today's standards, a "playa'" of sorts.

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