I have Robert Johnson tattooed on my the top of my right arm! And it literally looks like someone pasted that pic of him 0:40 in his suit, sitting on the stool with his guitar directly on my arm!
i did a lot of research and i found out what the figure on the upper left of the picture is: Its a Wall! youll see that evry room that is square has like 4 of these so called walls. These walls are essential wenn you want to create the concept of a room! While your making a picture in a room most of the time their will be a wall visible on the picture (check some other pictures yourself so youll see it for yourself)
stupid pple he dont sell his soul to devil, this is just a popular expression and with some time become a rumor, and a legend. anyway there is no devil to buy and no soul to sell.
@TumisHumis Spending eternity with Mr. Johnson or John Fogerty and the gang seems like heaven either way. Don't really care if my skin is being lyed away or peeled off if one of those two men is there to comfort me like Orpheus of old. Despite Fogerty's Cali birth I do feel him a true "suthner". Long live CCR, and may the devil serve Mr. Johnson as the true king of the nether regions. With his smooth yet broken eloquence, who's to say he couldn't have conquered Satan himself?
@TumisHumis they call themselves christians but they arent real christians, if they truly followed christ they wouldnt discriminate against anyone, they would kill anyone they would try to make peace not hate, thats what jesus was all about, thats just an old tale about robert johnson no one knows if its true, he probably just wood shedded to get good when he was in arkansas for a few months
the greatest guitarist the greatest singer, the greatest song writer, the greatest black mind, the greatest believer in his music, there is one and only...
JIMI HENDRIX
what you thought i was talking about this chode johnson LOL no way he sucked
@wheresrichie Hendrix was overrated as a guitarist and as a musician. He was good, but not as good as everybody says.
Johnson was one of the most incredible blues musicians of his time, influencing Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Fleetwood Mac, among others.
Without people like Robert Johnson, rock and roll WOULDN'T EVEN EXIST.
You are fully entitled to your opinion but, to be honest, if you're going to waste time going on videos and posting negative comments, you probably shouldn't be.
Seriously get a life talk like that, Everyone has his diff that make's the perfection.
You cannot judge shit with nerdiness no because facts are right! The one used drugs the other played acoustic one was drunk while writing other not! everyone gots his shit but they sure know how to make the music hit! never talk about the gods if your not one of them!
@DoggedCyprez 2 quick things, because it's 10 pm and I can't be bothered to reply properly; he said that one sucked and the other was amazing but with less 'nerdiness' as you so eloquently put it whereas I said that each had their good points but you have to recognise Johnson's 'genius', second, 'never talk about the gods if you're not one of them?' Right, so I'll never talk about a famous musician again. Thanks for the advice.
I'd like to thank you for posting this video. Because I just bought a 2 cd set called "The High Price of Soul" from half.com. despite the great price, and numerous other great songs that are on there, this sadly isn't one of them, even though it says its on there. so anyhow it seems that your vid here is the only way i'll get to listen to this fantastic piece of music, and I thank you for posting it.
@wombastic88 THERE IS ACTUALLY ANOTHER PICTURE OF MR. JOHNSON, GOOGLE IT ROBERT JOHNSON AND JOHNNY SHINES.... AND ITS RUMORED TO EXIST MORE PICTURES OF HIM, JUST WAIT 20 YEARS AND I AM 100% SURE WE WILL HAVE AT LEAST 6 PICTURES OF HIM,
He probably didnt ACTUALLY sell his soul to the devil for blues... the whole going down to the crossroads and selling his soul to the devil thing is just because he was so ahead of his time. P.S. the movie "Crossroads"... awesome movie. I'm sure Robert would be amazed at how far his work has carried on. Eric Clapton's covers of his songs are amazing as well. Clapton Truely idolized Johnson.
@jm500034204 Why don't you spit Clapton's balls outta your mouth before you choke to death. Clapton thought he's the best so he covered the best but compared to Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and John Mayall...they are the real idolizers of the blues greats. Even though they're white it doesn't matter. Go thru hardship in your life, rock bottom, heartbroken, death destruction, hopelessness, depression...fucking hell.
@PRLDRM86 Super sweet dude... Claptons dedinately not my fav and to say he hasn't had hardship in his life would be a dead wrong statement. Also he admits in interviews there ate 100's of guitarist that are better then he is but he is a modern day pioneer for the blues into the mainstream. But anyways have an awesome day ;).
@PRLDRM86 Clapton wrote 'Tears in Heaven' about the pain he suffered when his four-year-old son Conor died after falling out of a window on the 53rd floor of a building in New York.
He wrote 'Layla' for Pattie Boyd, the woman he loved. Problem? Pattie was married to George Harrison at the time. (They later married. George didn't really care.)
'Cocaine' speaks for itself, I think.
Clapton plays with soul and CAN feel the blues. The delta bluesmen felt it more, but Clapton can and does feel it.
@Vanguard448 Clapton didn't write Cocaine. Eric Clapton has done more for the Blues than any other contemporary musician. He always gives them props, he respects and loves the old masters.
I love Johnson!!! To praise him the band Dirty Sound Magnet made a video clip about his life and death. I think he would be proud to see the effects of his music almost 100 years after his death. Check it out
watch?v=FvQoB5j_LmI (Or go directly on my youtube profile :-))
You won't be disapointed. True blues rock still exists
Excellent vid! Love seeing the Mississippi whirlpools (awesome), both bridges, traffic bridge be going to Memphis. Didn't start there, it came to...and you brought that home. Thank You!!!
Walking Blues, and no one even comes close. He does not seem to be going for a lot of fancy trickery on the guitar, that is to say, it sounds pretty simple but it has an overall rhythm that captures my mind and keeps me riveted. Another thing: The lyrics to Walking Blues is pretty simple...why do cover versions seem to screw it up so badly?
I have to say.. I saw someone on a festival 5 years ago and he was playing the walking blues...It was GOOD. Simple and ongoing, used his foot for the rhythm, good voice. The audience was quiet. A shame I didn't remember his name. But I still remember the 'vibe'. So I guess not everyone screws it up. :)
@ majinbunda I disagree, the whole Devil thing, had more to do with the times, any musician that played in juke joints back in the day, was refered to as a cat that played the devils music. Thus all blues musicians sold there soul to play the devils music in the devils club.
HOLY SHIT! There it is! there is an alien in the pic. I'ts probably just something to do with light and shadow when the picture was taken, but still, I've seen this pic dozzens of times and never noticed that before. coooool....
''I've been mistreated and I don't mind dying... Woke up this mornin' and all I had was gone''.... Immortal feelings with with eternal, pure blues guitar sound. Greatest song by RB IMO. Unlikely to be surpassed, ever. Unique and classic damn genius.
Robert Johnson was a genius, leave his video untainted by conjecture. If he did make a deal with the Devil he got his soul's worth. No one had played the blues like him before or has since.
I have to disagree with you. Even though I am a huge Robert Johnson fan (as you could easily tell if you check out my vids) there are many other bluesmen before his time that did much more then him. Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House just to name a few.
It's funny too, because the myth of him selling his soul to the devil in the song crossroads, if you listen to the song he's actually singing 'asked the Lord above for mercy, save poor bob if you please'
@lostintheblues like who? there were guys before him but they couldnt touch johnson, his lyrics his rythmn and style were unprecedented notice the riff style at the end of each verse he sings no one can do that now. remember these recordings have one guitar they are not dubbed like alot of blues records were even back then.
this guy is great..i first heard him only at UW am radio now DZRJ in the early 70's..in the movie crossroads his soul was sold to the devil that's why he died so young..thanks for posting..
A lot of idiots look for videos that they don't like so they can say stupid shit about it. Most of these idiots have no taste in music, so he may have said something negative about Robert Johnson. My guess is that it was racist. I can tell by the whole chain going on that the guy is a total ass.
@ blusician1965 i thought the same thing first time i heard johnson i was like who is that playing guitar with him? i was blown away when I found it was just 1 guy. And the folklore about him just makes him that much better
@TheReckonman. go fuck your self you fuckin faggot you take your dildo and shove it up your ass, to bad i dont live near missouri i woud stomp the shit out of you . you fuckin punk............
majinbunda, Listen to his song "Terraplane Blues" and tell me you can match him in 7 months. Keith Richards, you know of the Rolling Stones heard "Tertaplane Blues" and said, "He's great, who's the other guy playing with him". It was ONLY Robert Johnson.
About the whole selling his soul to the devil, that was TOMMY Johnson, who actually claimed to have sold his soul at the cross roads. Of course, Robert Johnson became much more famous, and the legend became arbitrarily attached to him.
@majinbunda Check out what Son House says about it. He went away & came back 7 mths later playin' the best licks ever heard. Eric Clapton is still tryin' to play just like'em
I think such ideas were popular back in the day. Here in Norway, in the old days, the fiddle was blamed for immorality and wantonness. It was called the instrument of the Devil because superstition had it you could only become a really great fiddler if you gave up your soul.
The legend of the deal with the devil sprouted up twenty years after his death, when his music was discovered by white people. Legends of those types of deals were around long before Johnson in both Black and European traditions. It was applied to Johnson after he lived and died.
Apparently he was pretty bad at guitar and then disappeared for 2 years or so, then when he came back he was the best guitarist anyone had ever seen. My theory is that he got sick of being ragged on about his guitar skills and left for a while to just focus on being better at guitar. There was no deal with the devil you guys, get your heads out of the clouds.
People like to say that he was good all the time, but when he left he went down to the crossroads and the devil tuned his guitar :D I love the mysterious stories behind Johnson, makes him even more of a legend ^.^
the sax has been used in blues almost the whole time blues has been around.. that would be like saying there is no electric guitar in blues.. because they didn't have the electric gutair in blues at the start. lol
Just wondered if anyone ever noticed the Alien looking figure to the upper right of the famous pic of Mr Johnson, the one with the hat, not the cig in his mouth, the one at :45 0n this vid. I noticed it years ago in a book I have. It looks just like the alien pic everyone draws. Crazy Shit!!! Concidering I've only seen 2 pics of him, I don't know if there is more, but damn thats the alien pic I've always seen. Thumbs up if you see it!!!!!
thats because he was poisoned and when dying a slow death u become delusional the reason they said he sold his soul to the devil was because when he first started playing he sucked!! son house and others would laugh at him then he went away for a few yrs and when he returned he blew everyone away so the musicians would say 'he must have sold his soul" he was so good they couldnt believe it thats my theory
if u get poisined you have a couple of minutes to a couple of days.... this has nothing to with being disillusional over the devils presence. Anyway, johnson went down to the crossroads before he was poisined and already spoke of the devil and played as if the devil gave him something long before the reports of him being poisoned. He was poisoned becasue he couldnt keep his trousers on. you can find all this on youtube vids. I stand to be corrected......enjoy the vids man!!
I don't know if he really sold his soul to the devil, but eyewitnesses from before ´his death say thAT johnson was behaving really weird and was speaking in tongues.
I saw a video about Robert Johnson, they went down south and interviewed a couple people that were still alive that Robert Johnson knew, including his girlfrield, that he makes refrence to in a few songs, willie mae. Got to remember that back in the day phrases we use today ment different things back then, for instance in sweet home chicago he isn't reffering to Chicago,Illinois. they say Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, that was a phrase used alot reffering to a blues musician.
I love it! You put the images together well with the music. It really created a feeling of the Mississippi Delta Blues. Good job! Love RJ. Love the blues. This is where we got rock and roll. (-:
they say he was poisened.. that is just a theory... among other theories is that he got stabbed and the legend goes that he really met the devil and sold his soul...
I've read 2 books about RJ (by no means does that make me an expert :). The "Crossroads Myth" origininated in Ireland a few centuries back. It immigrated to the u.s. with the Irish in late 1800's. It wasn't born out of the blues, but as a fable. When RJ came back after 2 wks and was able to play, that story was spread. His played to that story and it sold records. Songs about the devil were plenty in those days, and have still a part of R'n'R. His friends went along with it, they knew truth.
I no longer have the first book (read it back when I was in the navy, 18 years ago. :). It played to the myth and glorified his wandering ways. At the time there wasn't a lot of accurate research done yet. The other book - which is VERY good - was "Escaping The Delta - Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues", by Elijah Wald. The first half of the book describes his era and other musicians that influenced him and got the whole delta guitar blues. Last half is about him, recordings, etc.
Oh, Wood also writes about the two-week absence, stating that it was probably 2 years, as there was a time about that long when Johnson was a travelling musician. I think 2 years is probably the truth too. :) ANYWAY.... great book.
I read he disappeared for 6 months and mastered the guitar in that time(Which is surely possible without no contract with Lucifer, if he only practised those 6 months.. But the myth is always more interesting isnt it?)
Yeah, for sure.. The mention of Johnson immediately brings the legend to mind. As a PR thing, it worked, huh? lol For a man that didn't hold a job, 6 months IS a loooonnng time to work on technique.
While I don't believe he sold his soul to the devil, in know way did he learn to play like that in 6 months. Back then anyone that played blues in juke joints was looked at by society, as one that sold there soul to the devil. got to remember very religious times, basically a bar musician was looked at as someone who strayed away from Jesus, thus they played the Devils music. Even today lots of churches look at Rock n roll as satanic worship music. Crazy!!!!!!!!
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handspringmatt 4 months ago
thought it was crossroads for a bit there
Memorex996 4 months ago
ALIEN FINGERS
asghanim 5 months ago
@asghanim worker fingers
Ledzeppelinach 4 months ago
wish i knew where the crossroads were
SRSM20 6 months ago
@SRSM20 Clarksdale, Mississippi bro
SirPrankalot 5 months ago
@SRSM20 clarksdale mississippi. where 49 and 61 cross so they say. they also say theres a crossroads in Rosedale, Miss. where he sold his soul
515742617000027 5 months ago
@SRSM20 located in the Delta of Mississippi. Highway 61 & 49. Clarksville Ms.
1952FMS 1 month ago
@1952FMS Clarksdale*
bulkrivero 1 month ago
how can u dislike this?..
forinyto 6 months ago
I love the little ´ping´ of the guitar that Johnson makes.
Picklesnipe 6 months ago 2
Great Job. I love the artistic nature of the photos also.
JM092097 6 months ago
8 people should be shot in the face
deftones4u 6 months ago
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SunriseJessamine 8 months ago
I have Robert Johnson tattooed on my the top of my right arm! And it literally looks like someone pasted that pic of him 0:40 in his suit, sitting on the stool with his guitar directly on my arm!
Krinisty 8 months ago
Larey Wheelock would love this....we all miss Larry
kimedmundson1 8 months ago
7 people should keep walking.
bilethezombie 8 months ago 2
Happy 100th Birthday Robert Johnson
PaganGypsy 8 months ago 6
this is incredible
kaloyansa 9 months ago
Does blues get any better? DAMN!
NJNetsFTW 9 months ago 17
@NJNetsFTW
that's what philip anselmo and the rest of the d0Wn guys are doin right now.
long live robert johnson and d0Wn.
bjthepumpkinguy 9 months ago
@NJNetsFTW +no it doesnt,,i belive that this negro sold his soul to the devilll.it ust be so...
Afghanen 8 months ago
Great stuff !! :) Thumbs up!
TheMysticVagabond 9 months ago
RJ is god!
dangrabat 9 months ago
from her head down to her toes lol
bassmaster3487 10 months ago
Sends the chill to the bones!!
fngrpkn06 10 months ago
7 people are walking the wrong way.
MrAlbinoPanther 10 months ago
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apacer232 11 months ago
i did a lot of research and i found out what the figure on the upper left of the picture is: Its a Wall! youll see that evry room that is square has like 4 of these so called walls. These walls are essential wenn you want to create the concept of a room! While your making a picture in a room most of the time their will be a wall visible on the picture (check some other pictures yourself so youll see it for yourself)
jeroenvlas 11 months ago
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Christians are delusional nutcases!
djangolad 1 year ago
without Robert Johnson, Clapton would not be the guitar player he is...period.
FWAkhenaten 1 year ago 2
just amazing fact :)
Bristolbluesplayer 1 year ago
stupid pple he dont sell his soul to devil, this is just a popular expression and with some time become a rumor, and a legend. anyway there is no devil to buy and no soul to sell.
asghanim 1 year ago
The way i see it, i'd rather be in hell jammin' with Robert Johnson and the gang, than spend eternity with Creed and the KKK in heaven.
TumisHumis 1 year ago 87
@TumisHumis Wow! We have it folks, the stupidiest comment of the decade!
southwriter 1 year ago 2
@southwriter is it stupid just because there's no hell and heaven?:)
Lagunaaaaaaaaa 10 months ago
@TumisHumis The way i see it...you'll end up alone somewhere.....no Satan, no R.J. and no Creed...just you hahahahaha
Dexterlabah 1 year ago
@TumisHumis Spending eternity with Mr. Johnson or John Fogerty and the gang seems like heaven either way. Don't really care if my skin is being lyed away or peeled off if one of those two men is there to comfort me like Orpheus of old. Despite Fogerty's Cali birth I do feel him a true "suthner". Long live CCR, and may the devil serve Mr. Johnson as the true king of the nether regions. With his smooth yet broken eloquence, who's to say he couldn't have conquered Satan himself?
ConriDubhghail 11 months ago
@TumisHumis Pure GOLD - Amen brother!!! See you at the Crossroads near midnight! ;)
CosmicSoulMaestro 11 months ago
@TumisHumis Pure GOLD - Amen brother!!! See you at the Crossroads near midnight! ;)
CosmicSoulMaestro 11 months ago
@TumisHumis why would the kkk be in heaven, and why would robert johnson be in hell
TheBrokenTelescope 9 months ago
@TheBrokenTelescope The KKK are Christians, and Robert Johnson "Sold his Soul to the Devil"
TumisHumis 9 months ago
@TumisHumis they call themselves christians but they arent real christians, if they truly followed christ they wouldnt discriminate against anyone, they would kill anyone they would try to make peace not hate, thats what jesus was all about, thats just an old tale about robert johnson no one knows if its true, he probably just wood shedded to get good when he was in arkansas for a few months
TheBrokenTelescope 9 months ago
@TheBrokenTelescope All i can say, is i don't know jesus, and you don't know jesus. All we have is stories translated more times than i can count to.
TumisHumis 9 months ago
@TumisHumis i know him, i know him
TheBrokenTelescope 9 months ago
@TumisHumis i know right! beautiful music
fibbingcats 8 months ago
@TumisHumis quien te dijo que el ku klux klan esta en el cielo?
MrPsico1988 4 months ago
@TumisHumis who said those'd ever make it to heaven?
bhaal1 4 months ago
@bhaal1 Any southern baptist church that preaches "Acceptance of Jesus is the only thing that'll get you there" (AKA the South)
TumisHumis 2 months ago
@TumisHumis Don't forget all the TV evangelists!
ShalomYal 1 month ago
A man who sold his soul to the devil has a Christian quotation on his gravestone. Kind of ironic I would say.
Puzyrro 1 year ago
@ 39 SECONDS YOU SEE THE SATAN HIMSELF WITH ROBERT IN THAT INFAMOUS PIC.
canecorsomob 1 year ago
the greatest guitarist the greatest singer, the greatest song writer, the greatest black mind, the greatest believer in his music, there is one and only...
JIMI HENDRIX
what you thought i was talking about this chode johnson LOL no way he sucked
wheresrichie 1 year ago
@wheresrichie Hendrix was overrated as a guitarist and as a musician. He was good, but not as good as everybody says.
Johnson was one of the most incredible blues musicians of his time, influencing Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Fleetwood Mac, among others.
Without people like Robert Johnson, rock and roll WOULDN'T EVEN EXIST.
You are fully entitled to your opinion but, to be honest, if you're going to waste time going on videos and posting negative comments, you probably shouldn't be.
Vanguard448 1 year ago
@Vanguard448
Seriously get a life talk like that, Everyone has his diff that make's the perfection.
You cannot judge shit with nerdiness no because facts are right! The one used drugs the other played acoustic one was drunk while writing other not! everyone gots his shit but they sure know how to make the music hit! never talk about the gods if your not one of them!
DoggedCyprez 1 year ago
@DoggedCyprez 2 quick things, because it's 10 pm and I can't be bothered to reply properly; he said that one sucked and the other was amazing but with less 'nerdiness' as you so eloquently put it whereas I said that each had their good points but you have to recognise Johnson's 'genius', second, 'never talk about the gods if you're not one of them?' Right, so I'll never talk about a famous musician again. Thanks for the advice.
Vanguard448 1 year ago
@wheresrichie
Jimi was the Kang !
psychkoala 1 year ago
@wheresrichie Hendrix said Chicago's guitarist was better than he was.
valkour22 1 year ago
hmm i dun car if its an alien pic or not it is some danm good music the blues was born and raised in the deep south
TheNekoman123 1 year ago
Got to give the man props Lot of music has been influenced from him. He will be on my fav 5
gera1690 1 year ago
O canto de um homem de quem o mundo só conhece DUAS FOTOS
helenawf 1 year ago
1:10, there is your stamp!!!!!!!!!!!!
radioheadkids2 1 year ago
I'd like to thank you for posting this video. Because I just bought a 2 cd set called "The High Price of Soul" from half.com. despite the great price, and numerous other great songs that are on there, this sadly isn't one of them, even though it says its on there. so anyhow it seems that your vid here is the only way i'll get to listen to this fantastic piece of music, and I thank you for posting it.
MrBlank5 1 year ago
cant sell sumthing you dont own.
Responder4 1 year ago
theres only 2 pictures of him
wombastic88 1 year ago
@wombastic88 THERE IS ACTUALLY ANOTHER PICTURE OF MR. JOHNSON, GOOGLE IT ROBERT JOHNSON AND JOHNNY SHINES.... AND ITS RUMORED TO EXIST MORE PICTURES OF HIM, JUST WAIT 20 YEARS AND I AM 100% SURE WE WILL HAVE AT LEAST 6 PICTURES OF HIM,
voodoochild53 1 year ago
He probably didnt ACTUALLY sell his soul to the devil for blues... the whole going down to the crossroads and selling his soul to the devil thing is just because he was so ahead of his time. P.S. the movie "Crossroads"... awesome movie. I'm sure Robert would be amazed at how far his work has carried on. Eric Clapton's covers of his songs are amazing as well. Clapton Truely idolized Johnson.
jm500034204 1 year ago
@jm500034204 Why don't you spit Clapton's balls outta your mouth before you choke to death. Clapton thought he's the best so he covered the best but compared to Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and John Mayall...they are the real idolizers of the blues greats. Even though they're white it doesn't matter. Go thru hardship in your life, rock bottom, heartbroken, death destruction, hopelessness, depression...fucking hell.
PRLDRM86 1 year ago
@PRLDRM86 Super sweet dude... Claptons dedinately not my fav and to say he hasn't had hardship in his life would be a dead wrong statement. Also he admits in interviews there ate 100's of guitarist that are better then he is but he is a modern day pioneer for the blues into the mainstream. But anyways have an awesome day ;).
jm500034204 1 year ago
@PRLDRM86 Clapton wrote 'Tears in Heaven' about the pain he suffered when his four-year-old son Conor died after falling out of a window on the 53rd floor of a building in New York.
He wrote 'Layla' for Pattie Boyd, the woman he loved. Problem? Pattie was married to George Harrison at the time. (They later married. George didn't really care.)
'Cocaine' speaks for itself, I think.
Clapton plays with soul and CAN feel the blues. The delta bluesmen felt it more, but Clapton can and does feel it.
Vanguard448 1 year ago
@Vanguard448 Clapton didn't write Cocaine. Eric Clapton has done more for the Blues than any other contemporary musician. He always gives them props, he respects and loves the old masters.
hoz49 1 year ago
@hoz49 when Hendrix came up, he put Clapton to shame, period.
rawjokes 1 year ago
@rawjokes There's no telling where Hendrix would have ended. Would he have returned to his roots, the Blues? Or kept innovating.?
hoz49 1 year ago
@hoz49 Hendrix blow clapton out of the water in london, case closed.
rawjokes 1 year ago
if hendrix wasent murderd he would have ended up, doing symphonic stuff, really great stuff, such a shame
jahstp 1 year ago
Incredible song. My god...
dragaoastro69 1 year ago
I love Johnson!!! To praise him the band Dirty Sound Magnet made a video clip about his life and death. I think he would be proud to see the effects of his music almost 100 years after his death. Check it out
watch?v=FvQoB5j_LmI (Or go directly on my youtube profile :-))
You won't be disapointed. True blues rock still exists
DirtySoundMagnet 1 year ago
johnson definately sold his soul to the devil...at least as far as he was concerned, and that's all that matters
igotasweetass 1 year ago
Excellent vid! Love seeing the Mississippi whirlpools (awesome), both bridges, traffic bridge be going to Memphis. Didn't start there, it came to...and you brought that home. Thank You!!!
radioheadkids2 1 year ago
Walking Blues, and no one even comes close. He does not seem to be going for a lot of fancy trickery on the guitar, that is to say, it sounds pretty simple but it has an overall rhythm that captures my mind and keeps me riveted. Another thing: The lyrics to Walking Blues is pretty simple...why do cover versions seem to screw it up so badly?
kpasa111 1 year ago
@kpasa111
I have to say.. I saw someone on a festival 5 years ago and he was playing the walking blues...It was GOOD. Simple and ongoing, used his foot for the rhythm, good voice. The audience was quiet. A shame I didn't remember his name. But I still remember the 'vibe'. So I guess not everyone screws it up. :)
expendabolicious 1 year ago
@ majinbunda I disagree, the whole Devil thing, had more to do with the times, any musician that played in juke joints back in the day, was refered to as a cat that played the devils music. Thus all blues musicians sold there soul to play the devils music in the devils club.
stevefrareyjr 1 year ago
HOLY SHIT! There it is! there is an alien in the pic. I'ts probably just something to do with light and shadow when the picture was taken, but still, I've seen this pic dozzens of times and never noticed that before. coooool....
MoshPitVeteran 1 year ago
''I've been mistreated and I don't mind dying... Woke up this mornin' and all I had was gone''.... Immortal feelings with with eternal, pure blues guitar sound. Greatest song by RB IMO. Unlikely to be surpassed, ever. Unique and classic damn genius.
DeKalblu 1 year ago
I don't know what's better, his singing or his guitar playing!
Polde1243 1 year ago
Robert Johnson was a genius, leave his video untainted by conjecture. If he did make a deal with the Devil he got his soul's worth. No one had played the blues like him before or has since.
idiotequeiceage 1 year ago
Amen
happydrum 1 year ago
I have to disagree with you. Even though I am a huge Robert Johnson fan (as you could easily tell if you check out my vids) there are many other bluesmen before his time that did much more then him. Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House just to name a few.
It's funny too, because the myth of him selling his soul to the devil in the song crossroads, if you listen to the song he's actually singing 'asked the Lord above for mercy, save poor bob if you please'
He's just the tip ofthe iceburg
lostintheblues 1 year ago 2
@lostintheblues like who? there were guys before him but they couldnt touch johnson, his lyrics his rythmn and style were unprecedented notice the riff style at the end of each verse he sings no one can do that now. remember these recordings have one guitar they are not dubbed like alot of blues records were even back then.
dexterferrell 1 year ago
@dexterferrell Blues records were not dubbed back then. Johnson recorded in 1936/1937.
I don't know what riff style you mean at the end of each verse....the turnarounds?
Johnson's bass lines were also sub-par to many of his contemporaries.
I think you just need to be exposed to more music of that time period and earlier.
lostintheblues 1 year ago
@idiotequeiceage :)
radioheadkids2 1 year ago
@idiotequeiceage LOL
radioheadkids2 1 year ago
Brilliant
happydrum 1 year ago
this guy is great..i first heard him only at UW am radio now DZRJ in the early 70's..in the movie crossroads his soul was sold to the devil that's why he died so young..thanks for posting..
gatsbyKLoGGitz 1 year ago
what did reckonman say to piss dude off so bad? i know he wasn't sayin robert johnson suked.... if thats the case he wouldn't of watched this video
wzkiker 1 year ago
A lot of idiots look for videos that they don't like so they can say stupid shit about it. Most of these idiots have no taste in music, so he may have said something negative about Robert Johnson. My guess is that it was racist. I can tell by the whole chain going on that the guy is a total ass.
Beatnikzombie 1 year ago 2
sonzera
theflends 1 year ago
hey retard i was talkin to you not your mother, i dont talk shit about somebodys mother your a fuckin pussy, posting sick shit on a robert johnson
clip your fucked up in the head fuck off
MrZepfan1066 1 year ago
@ blusician1965 i thought the same thing first time i heard johnson i was like who is that playing guitar with him? i was blown away when I found it was just 1 guy. And the folklore about him just makes him that much better
itsfloodindownintex 1 year ago 2
@TheReckonman. go fuck your self you fuckin faggot you take your dildo and shove it up your ass, to bad i dont live near missouri i woud stomp the shit out of you . you fuckin punk............
MrZepfan1066 1 year ago
@TheReckonman. fuck you motherfucker
go post your bullshit somewhere else ya
fuckin douche bag.............
MrZepfan1066 1 year ago
majinbunda, Listen to his song "Terraplane Blues" and tell me you can match him in 7 months. Keith Richards, you know of the Rolling Stones heard "Tertaplane Blues" and said, "He's great, who's the other guy playing with him". It was ONLY Robert Johnson.
Blusician1965 2 years ago
blooooooooowin' my lonesome horn...
HieronymousLex 2 years ago
About the whole selling his soul to the devil, that was TOMMY Johnson, who actually claimed to have sold his soul at the cross roads. Of course, Robert Johnson became much more famous, and the legend became arbitrarily attached to him.
Now you know.
westpsmity 2 years ago 3
Of course you can't.
miguelkorzetz 2 years ago
youre right
bazookarka 2 years ago
i thnk this devil deal thing was just some kind of commercial shit to sell up hes songs after he died
majinbunda 2 years ago 4
@majinbunda Check out what Son House says about it. He went away & came back 7 mths later playin' the best licks ever heard. Eric Clapton is still tryin' to play just like'em
Ixtee1979 2 years ago
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with 7 months of playing i bet i can do it better than him and eric clapton together( i know it sounds childsh but its true)
majinbunda 2 years ago
@majinbunda
I think such ideas were popular back in the day. Here in Norway, in the old days, the fiddle was blamed for immorality and wantonness. It was called the instrument of the Devil because superstition had it you could only become a really great fiddler if you gave up your soul.
1967norway 1 year ago
@majinbunda or that it was just son house jaelous of his guitar playing
majinbunda 1 year ago
thanx for the upload
hayhashy 2 years ago
The legend of the deal with the devil sprouted up twenty years after his death, when his music was discovered by white people. Legends of those types of deals were around long before Johnson in both Black and European traditions. It was applied to Johnson after he lived and died.
changeling0203 2 years ago 3
Apparently he was pretty bad at guitar and then disappeared for 2 years or so, then when he came back he was the best guitarist anyone had ever seen. My theory is that he got sick of being ragged on about his guitar skills and left for a while to just focus on being better at guitar. There was no deal with the devil you guys, get your heads out of the clouds.
Gageisrasta 2 years ago 12
People like to say that he was good all the time, but when he left he went down to the crossroads and the devil tuned his guitar :D I love the mysterious stories behind Johnson, makes him even more of a legend ^.^
psychoactivepaper 2 years ago
@Gageisrasta it was 6 months
drunknmonky77 9 months ago
@Gageisrasta
I wouldn't say that if I were you. The devil can read this, and you should give him credit where it is due.
miamifootbal 9 months ago
@Gageisrasta This is most likely true but not anyway as much fun
aritus33 9 months ago
fucking oustanding. RIP
monosevenmusic 2 years ago
the sax has been used in blues almost the whole time blues has been around.. that would be like saying there is no electric guitar in blues.. because they didn't have the electric gutair in blues at the start. lol
StraightDudeUp 2 years ago
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gay pic a chiick with sax is lame no sax in blues
brianlowdown 2 years ago
The sax has been used in Blues for many years..
StraightDudeUp 2 years ago
*cough* George Thorogood and the Destroyers to just name 1 out of the 1000's
Kelros1428697 2 years ago
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heard this on the radio today :)
rambleonrose93 2 years ago
amazing song
fccsdgtteqqsdg 2 years ago 2
Just wondered if anyone ever noticed the Alien looking figure to the upper right of the famous pic of Mr Johnson, the one with the hat, not the cig in his mouth, the one at :45 0n this vid. I noticed it years ago in a book I have. It looks just like the alien pic everyone draws. Crazy Shit!!! Concidering I've only seen 2 pics of him, I don't know if there is more, but damn thats the alien pic I've always seen. Thumbs up if you see it!!!!!
stevefrareyjr 2 years ago 64
Damn, you're right! Could be a coincident, or photoshop!
smashingpumpkin999 2 years ago
@stevefrareyjr i see it man
runecrafter69 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr the one with da hat an guitar? i think i can see it!!!it's kinda scary too
xdeathKittyxX 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr no just two and thx for mentoning that alien thing never seen it before
trygvi1 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr
Its an ancestor/Ghost thing the cameras did back then.
RastafariPoet 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr
Yeah, I see it. It's just light and shadows though.
1967norway 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr Completely agree I see the devil in that corner
celtic2991 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr obviously its not an alien but an 'old evil spirit'
Nerudah 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr
Strange, now that you mention it that image stands out like a sore thumb.
blackmayonnaise888 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr not a alien but the devil that he sold is soul!!!!
jetf22raptor 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr holy shit you see it the alien face its creepy in the background
TheNekoman123 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr There's no alien there!
sergiomats 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr That's not an alien kid, that's the face of SATAN
greeneyes0417 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr thats the devil showin his influence
Branden1119 1 year ago 2
@stevefrareyjr I've always had the impression, as I love the "legend" of Robert Johnson, that it's a satanic figure in the corner of that photo.
bob80brook 1 year ago
@stevefrareyjr It's not a alien.. it's the Devil
BordiniBlues85 1 year ago 2
That's blues! ;)
jahajaj 2 years ago
The guitar at 0:40 in... Is taht an old sears "Stella" brand guitar? I beleave it is
TheGrillinfool 2 years ago
i woke up this morning :D great great stuff.he wasa true genius.
soloboy1991 2 years ago 2
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Anyone want to buy the tab for this?
pogueish 2 years ago
thats because he was poisoned and when dying a slow death u become delusional the reason they said he sold his soul to the devil was because when he first started playing he sucked!! son house and others would laugh at him then he went away for a few yrs and when he returned he blew everyone away so the musicians would say 'he must have sold his soul" he was so good they couldnt believe it thats my theory
yiommi 2 years ago
if u get poisined you have a couple of minutes to a couple of days.... this has nothing to with being disillusional over the devils presence. Anyway, johnson went down to the crossroads before he was poisined and already spoke of the devil and played as if the devil gave him something long before the reports of him being poisoned. He was poisoned becasue he couldnt keep his trousers on. you can find all this on youtube vids. I stand to be corrected......enjoy the vids man!!
Cha5w 2 years ago
Yep, not your theory though, I read this version of the soulselling thing before
grubnetseor 2 years ago
a genius !
jaropi17 2 years ago 3
I don't know if he really sold his soul to the devil, but eyewitnesses from before ´his death say thAT johnson was behaving really weird and was speaking in tongues.
WolfInChains 2 years ago
ui beleive he did, "Crossraods", "Me and the Devil Blues", and "Done Sold My Souls To the Devil". It all adds up.
coughlintm 2 years ago
I think the third song is not Johnson's. It's Clara Smith.
OfficialArmonist 2 years ago
my bad
coughlintm 2 years ago
I saw a video about Robert Johnson, they went down south and interviewed a couple people that were still alive that Robert Johnson knew, including his girlfrield, that he makes refrence to in a few songs, willie mae. Got to remember that back in the day phrases we use today ment different things back then, for instance in sweet home chicago he isn't reffering to Chicago,Illinois. they say Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, that was a phrase used alot reffering to a blues musician.
stevefrareyjr 2 years ago
Nice video, Coredump.
gootenslog 2 years ago
Mabe he was blind
willwelsh816 2 years ago
Yeaa nice work
TROGGGGI 2 years ago
I love it! You put the images together well with the music. It really created a feeling of the Mississippi Delta Blues. Good job! Love RJ. Love the blues. This is where we got rock and roll. (-:
moovgirl 2 years ago
Would you stop putting that shitty pic in the beginning? good song though..
EnergyDog23 2 years ago 3
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STFU FAGGOT !
boycottPIGezHIVton 2 years ago
lol, what does STFU stands for?
vomitbrown 2 years ago
should
cheeseliker92 2 years ago
"Shut the fuck up"
Fififlan 2 years ago
ok Thanks
vomitbrown 2 years ago
.....this firework upwards
cheeseliker92 2 years ago
Real blues legend! *Thumbs Up!*
bilos1993 2 years ago 5
i wonder were his audiences whites or blacks was the guy who poisined him w or b
XGRIMYONEX 2 years ago
they say he was poisened.. that is just a theory... among other theories is that he got stabbed and the legend goes that he really met the devil and sold his soul...
But theres no proof lad
They never found his body remember ;)
MysteryHunterz 2 years ago
I've read 2 books about RJ (by no means does that make me an expert :). The "Crossroads Myth" origininated in Ireland a few centuries back. It immigrated to the u.s. with the Irish in late 1800's. It wasn't born out of the blues, but as a fable. When RJ came back after 2 wks and was able to play, that story was spread. His played to that story and it sold records. Songs about the devil were plenty in those days, and have still a part of R'n'R. His friends went along with it, they knew truth.
john67elliott 2 years ago
You've red books? What were their names and what was the name of the writer? =)
LeftForBlues 2 years ago
I no longer have the first book (read it back when I was in the navy, 18 years ago. :). It played to the myth and glorified his wandering ways. At the time there wasn't a lot of accurate research done yet. The other book - which is VERY good - was "Escaping The Delta - Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues", by Elijah Wald. The first half of the book describes his era and other musicians that influenced him and got the whole delta guitar blues. Last half is about him, recordings, etc.
john67elliott 2 years ago
Oh, Wood also writes about the two-week absence, stating that it was probably 2 years, as there was a time about that long when Johnson was a travelling musician. I think 2 years is probably the truth too. :) ANYWAY.... great book.
john67elliott 2 years ago
I read he disappeared for 6 months and mastered the guitar in that time(Which is surely possible without no contract with Lucifer, if he only practised those 6 months.. But the myth is always more interesting isnt it?)
Ranzefinaleight 2 years ago
Yeah, for sure.. The mention of Johnson immediately brings the legend to mind. As a PR thing, it worked, huh? lol For a man that didn't hold a job, 6 months IS a loooonnng time to work on technique.
john67elliott 2 years ago
While I don't believe he sold his soul to the devil, in know way did he learn to play like that in 6 months. Back then anyone that played blues in juke joints was looked at by society, as one that sold there soul to the devil. got to remember very religious times, basically a bar musician was looked at as someone who strayed away from Jesus, thus they played the Devils music. Even today lots of churches look at Rock n roll as satanic worship music. Crazy!!!!!!!!
stevefrareyjr 2 years ago 12