TOMMY JOHNSON 'Big Road Blues' Delta Blues Legend

[SuperBillythepoet]

Tommy Johnson is almost unknown and it makes me sad... Robert Johnson is great, but he's not the only one... Tommy recorded his 17 songs before Robert did, and nobody talks about him...maybe except on Youtube!

[Diosprometheus]

@SuperBillythepoet I agree. Some of that must have something to do with the quality of the recordings. Tommy's are often static-like where Robert's aren't so much. Tommy also never had a guy like Clapton singing his praises.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@Diosprometheus Tommy had Canned Heat but they don't quite measure up.

[Diosprometheus]

@AllBobsAllTheTime

I doubt many remember them today especially the young cats. You talk to them about stuff from the 60's and their eyes start to glaze over. They learn about music from American Idol, not from dues paying guys like Canned Heat or Ray Charles. Guys like Bob Dylan, or Hank Williams Sr or Jr, or the forgotten Red Foley are American Idols, not the latest winner of that show.

[deewilki]

@AllBobsAllTheTime the blind owl dont measure up this is the guy that re taught son house to play his own tunes and he dont measure up ok you talk pish my friend 

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@deewilki Canned Heat, boy - not Johnson himself.

[deewilki]

@AllBobsAllTheTime boy you facetious git i new what you meant and as i said blind owl from canned heat taught son house to play the blues

[kaptainbastard]

@AllBobsAllTheTime canned heat was a lemon jefferson song.robert johnson mostly copied son house and Lonnie Johnson.robert johnsons Blues existed before robert johnson was born.It was that crossroads film with the karaty kid that made robert johnson the famous houshold name.I know it because I was into that type of Blues before the crossroads film came out.robert johnson is just one of many records on my shelve nothing spectacular.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@kaptainbastard The push for Robert Johnson came in the late 60s after the Cream version of Crossroads and the release of the King of the Delta Blues Singers LPs which everyone snagged.

[Diosprometheus]

@SuperBillythepoet

Tommy never had Eric Clapton pushing his popularity.

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[MachinegunApe]

This song always takes me to some strange void. It physically gives me a feeling of the blues and grimness.

[degree7]

Canned Heat's "On the Road Again"

[nineveh420]

i absolutely love this song, and how much fun to play? Check out David bromberg doing this tune on his solo acoustic album or the version with jorma kaukonen here on the tube. Just fantastic stuff.

[Fruscianteistheman]

thanks for upload sir.

[morse3388]

this is the first delta song i ever learned on guitar. it still tears my heart out.

[zeppelinstripes]

Man I just love me some good ole home cooked blues.

[mudspud01]

OMFG!! man you have every fuckin video that is truely amazing of the blues artist... Now im only 16 and i knoow it dont meen mutch from a youngster , but you know what the real deal is !!!!

[ArcticEmmet]

@mudspud01 Congratulations for being 16...you douche

[solszew]

@mudspud01

Every time I hear a young cat praising the blues, I feel hope for the future. Now pick up an instrument and make it happen!

[Galacticplane]

This is the Blues! Thank you for sharing!