the things is people there wouldnt be clapton without robert johnson. as for who claptons better than that comes down to personal choice. in my opinion i agree with clapton being a rock and roll guy with roots in the blues. also johnson for me is the blues. hard life, hard working, drinking and ladys. but lets all just shut the fuck up and enjoy the music.
This Robert Johnson dude has the vintage look & sound down pat! He’s obviously extensively studied the old blues guys from the 20’s & 30’s. I’ve never heard of him before, probably because he needs to get better management & public relations. Like, where’s the magazine & TV interviews, & live performance clips? He could be big. But I bet he listens to rap when he’s by himself at home.
Robert Johnson was ok on this song but I think Porter Wagoner did a much better job. And I like the way Dolly Parton came in on the harmony. They would blow Robert away.
I really appreciate the video footage in this clip. It blends with the music so perfectly well. Gives me a sense of 'nostalgia' , everytime I watch it.
Probably because "Clapton is GOD." Therefore he will just manipulate the laws of nature and work it in everyones favor. Hell, it's probably already happened! :)
This is amazing footage and what a juxtaposition with the song. I always imagine RJ in a rural setting, I guess it's the sparseness of his lyrics. Still great work.
I didn't know much about the blues and even less about Robert Johnson until the movie crossroads came out and then I grew to love it all. I find it amazing how even a movie can open your mind to the point that you look at life and music differently.
The fact that you said niggas is really funny. It means the very people you hate have altered your way of speech. What a tight grip they have over your life. That's so ironic.
Also, you're a fucking joke. Take your racist bullshit off of this legends page you faggot.
Some of the cars look post WWII, however I'm sure the city's look didn't change all that much in the 20-30 years before that. I always have to wonder how in the world people like Robert Johnson and the other blues guys came up with this stuff. Other than negro spirituals, white folk songs, and traditional African music, they had no background, only their genius to come up with this. Great stuff!
@piuthemagicman Simply compare what Robert Johnson'd done with his only guitar in hands, with the very same "Sweet Home Chicago" that Clapton did with his band. I'm sorry to say that Robert Johnson had made Clapton looks rather like a "Clumsy hands" than a "Slow hand"
No offense meant, but I gladly trade Clapton for just a glimpse of Robert Johnson playing his damn guitar!
@themadaboutmusic Eric too?! Hmmm Kind of harsh. Tell you what. Throw in Big Bill Broonzy and you got yourself a deal. I will even throw in EVERY Hip Hop "singer" you can think of for FREE!
@themadaboutmusic eric clapton my ass just take all the shitty pop singers, it is bad enough as it is with so few good musicians. take...i don't know....Slash
@seifs4 You really think he's better than BB King and Buddy Guy at the blues? You need to get your knowledge straight. He's the least closest thing to the blues if anything. Shows how much you know.
@seifs4 And I never said you said that. You're saying that Clapton is better than BB and Buddy at the blues and that's just not true AT ALL. If you really think he's as blue as they come, you need to check if you know what the blues even are. If anything, he's a rock guitarist. Every time I've heard Clapton play blues, I cringe cause he just doesn't have it like the others. He has a "rock n roll heart" as he said himself. Clapton's attempts at blues are as good as Zeppelin's attempt at Reggae.
@ThornfullessRose haha no I never said that.......if you look back, someone put "Give us robert for clapton" or something and I was saying thats stupid. I'd understand trading miley cyrus but not clapton.....
@themadaboutmusic I'd give up almost all of the crap disney "stars" and pop "stars" for a robert johnson any day.... shit id trade my own soul for a robert johnson
Hey @Muldoon, you said something about no one paid any mind to Robert Johnson and so on until the 60's, and so on. I would like to know what you base this on. And, I'd also like to know how old you are and where you're from. Not trying to flame or start a war. Just curious.
i find something very chilling and spooky about robert johnson, and the birth of the blues, yet it's the greatest thing that has ever happened in the music industry.
@Stratticus93 I agree. Vintage things are spooky to me, and just his songs kind of creep me out. I like them no doubt, but the songs about the crossroads and the devil just creep me out.
Seventy three years after his death, folks are still in love with his music. Sweet Home Chicago was actually written by his friend Honeyboy Edwards, who is still jamming his guitar at 95.
You inspired so many.....Clapton, Keith, and so many more to chop wood with their axes. But mostly, you inspired me cause I know you didn't make a deal but rather worked your ass off.......no shortcuts. Thanx Pops.
@aaronamccoy i would have to say i agree with white bald headed queers as i have a full set of hair and am from scotland you wank. i bet your a dumb inbred redneck
i personally dont understand the whole liking system and why its on youtube but why do people bother disliking something? nevermind thats its this great song but just in general, what is the point in clicking on dislike? i just dont get it
Actually a lot of white people listened to this in the 40's as I did. I lived in Nebraska and listened to a lot of blues on a Kansas City radio staion late at night.
I give Clapton and all those other watered down imitators credit for trying to duplicate and make awareness of the masters work, but perfection can never be matched!
@allaboutrecords i think thats unfair to call other blues guys "watered down imitators" you learn from the people that come before them so of course they are going to have similair styles or maybe try and copy this style. they are learing from and trying to spread something good not trying to imitate him.
Love all of that old footage of Chicago. The north was a much better place to be than the south for black people at that time. Come to think of it, it still is!
@NoMoreVanilla dude i'm pretty sure that is a white girl and her little white brother, that's why she gave the evil look at the black girl standing there
Put some distortion on that guitar, and you've got white rock 'n' roll. I mean, ALL of it. I don't give a fuck what style, every skinny white middleclass British kid wanted to be a fuckin' poor American black man in the 60s, and then they sold it to us because no-one would listen to "race" music over here when it came out in the first place.
@MuIdoon , Actually, whites were ignorant of Robert Johnson until Columbia issued a compilation album in the 1960s. Before that, nobody paid no mind to Robert Johnson. Even African-Americans, pre-1960, considered Johnson to be a very minor figure, if they had heard of him at all. No one cared about Johnson until Clapton and others spread the gospel in the 1960s.
@guitarslim56 How would you know what African Americans would think of Robert Johnson? When did you know an entire race? Wrong, many people loved Johnson way before Clapton, give me a break. Johnson's music was common among African Americans, he was one of many.
@amberfwn Robert Johnson only had one song released while he was still alive. It was a minor hit in Mississippi Delta. Son House and Robert Johnson's bandmates were the only ones who really held him in high regard. And of course the bars he ventured. Outside of the Delta, Robert Johnson was unheard of and in the Delta he had one minor hit. It was something that was quickly put on the backburner. RJ was forgotten amongst blacks and whites until Colombia issued "King of the Delta" in 1961.
@guitarslim56 stop categorizing people period. we are humans but that was a different time & age at least the guitar greats were good enough to pay homage to Mr Johnson. Did Elvis pay tribute to all the people he 'borrowed' from? It was before the age of enlightenment that the present age is slowly representing. It was an age of ethnocentrism (as racism implies there are more than one and is an archaic term we shouldn't use anymore) and sadly some of the greats were lost... Not Mr J!! :)
@ttdwarren Elvis did list who wrote his songs. And Elvis would sing them in a completely different way. But id Elvis did not sing their songs their names would have been lost. Also, blues musicians have borrowed each other since slavery. Muddy Waters essentially "stole" Rollin Stone (Catfish Blues) and John Lee Hooker took lick after lick. Blues musicians have covered each other since forever ago. They really do not care.
@guitarslim56 You are speaking the truth! Yet those who were hired to run NPR shows in America based on the "The Blues" wanted to ignore that fact. In 1977 NPR wanted to speak through "liberal guilt", that Eric Clapton, and the rest of the British blues boom , never happened!! The reason they did that is because "IT'S THE TRUTH"!!! Without the British Blues boom of the late 60's, Americans would not care who Robert Johnson was. White Americans would not like Blues music today.
@MrTruthAddict I thought it was BS until I talked to a guy why actually hosted a Blues show for NPR over thirty years. He thinks Eric Clapton is the anti-christ. Paul Butterfield is barely acceptable because he was born in America, but he believes anyone born outside of the US is unworthy of playing the blues. These people exist.
@strangeones4 Yeah. America didn't want to listen to it. But they were respected and admired overseas.
Son of a the Turkish ambassador to the US in the 30's, Ahmet Ertegün would listen to blues and jazz records. His first venture to DC with his father, he went into a white record shop to find he couldn't find the American records he bought in Europe. The store clerk knew what he wanted and happily sent him to the black record shops. Ahmet went on to found Atlantic Records.
@guitarslim56 your absolutely right none of the old blues greats who actually wrote the songs plyed by the modern musicians get any credit till years after there already dead and gone
YEAH...sure.rock is sped up blues licks.metal is sped up rock.
but they sound totally different to the blues.WAAY different.
rock and metal are re-hashed blues licks.BLUES IS SIMPLY BLUES.
whatever influence came from the down home sound which is called "country" music and the blues well that came from "oppression".rock and metal sound nothing like it.now go away.
@gibsongold1970 You don't know what you are talking about, you can't take a genre and seperate it from everything and say this is blues, or this is rock, or this is metal, genres are mixed, pulled apart all the time, this is Delta Blues, Jimi Hendrix is psycadellic blues, rhythm & blues, whatever you want to call it, and even though he sounds different with tone, playing style etc. he is playing blues, yeah it came from oppression, he was poor, but guess what, Jimi mixed Rock and Roll with blues
@801Current you can't base music on what its about, you can make a happy blues song, a metal song about love, it's up the the artist, and the influences that play into their music is taking from different genres, you can't seperate the genre and say this is blues nothing else is. It doesn't work.
The only similarity between hip hop and delta blues is that they were both controversial in their time and there were a whole load of know-it-alls who thought that their opinion was worth more than the paper it was written on..
i didnt have the privelage of being exposed to this amazing golden ear nectar when i was growing up,this is only a recent discovery,but id just like to say thanks to mr robbie j and the rest of the great blues legends for paving the way for some of the great musicians we have today.without them im sure music would be very dull and dreary.much love.
@gibsongold1970 while i agree with you that there is a lot of garbage coming from the other genres that you mentioned, I would like to say that there is really great stuff coming from there. I would also like to disagree with the statement that hip-hop and rock have nothing to do with this style of music. A real musician would know that they draw heavily from this, whether it is directly or not. You my friend, have shown musical ignorance.
@gibsongold1970 really? You're right about hip hop having nothing to do with blues, but rock & metal have direct and primary influences from blues. It is even logical to claim that blues is the grandfather of all forms of "rock" and its derivatives today. 'Nuff trollin now.
Sounds like 2 people playing the guitar at times
ItsTiedToAStick 1 week ago
@ItsTiedToAStick yea him and the devil xD j/k
RcUniverseGuy 2 days ago
@HouseHoldGuy1, eat a dick old man :P
DijahSabreenBae 1 week ago
check out my channel if you like the blues
CharlesDavidPollock 2 weeks ago
thats my great great grand uncle <3 wonder where i got my skills from
DijahSabreenBae 2 weeks ago
@DijahSabreenBae the devil
HouseHoldGuy1 1 week ago in playlist Blues and Folk
Back to the land of Californuuu...
TheSyrupMan 2 weeks ago
Man, his voice cuts right through the speakers! Really incredibe!
oleomilani 3 weeks ago
Nega, vc não quer ir pra Chicago?!
oleomilani 3 weeks ago
Génie du Blues, Robert Johnson.
clipp48 1 month ago
the things is people there wouldnt be clapton without robert johnson. as for who claptons better than that comes down to personal choice. in my opinion i agree with clapton being a rock and roll guy with roots in the blues. also johnson for me is the blues. hard life, hard working, drinking and ladys. but lets all just shut the fuck up and enjoy the music.
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This Robert Johnson dude has the vintage look & sound down pat! He’s obviously extensively studied the old blues guys from the 20’s & 30’s. I’ve never heard of him before, probably because he needs to get better management & public relations. Like, where’s the magazine & TV interviews, & live performance clips? He could be big. But I bet he listens to rap when he’s by himself at home.
CecilTheSeaMonster 1 month ago
Black cock @2:10 ;p
mikeiow 1 month ago 2
His music is REAL.....His life and spirit show in his music. THANK YOU, ROBERT JOHNSON.
mmac1701 1 month ago
without him, we would not have the blues, i as a musician can understand the influence he has had on us. and its all good
russ987654 1 month ago
Robert Johnson was ok on this song but I think Porter Wagoner did a much better job. And I like the way Dolly Parton came in on the harmony. They would blow Robert away.
hotball49 2 months ago
I really appreciate the video footage in this clip. It blends with the music so perfectly well. Gives me a sense of 'nostalgia' , everytime I watch it.
Kudos to the VDO creator.
themadaboutmusic 2 months ago
robert would kill every single advertiser and actor on this video if he were still alive
GoldenNakai17 2 months ago
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woke up this morning....
jarvsie 2 months ago
Boy's got the devil in him!
johntheromo 2 months ago
Agree with you friend, I offer my soul too
Toshi66666 3 months ago
20 people ..afffff
ttlenine 3 months ago
dope
drogapuraa 3 months ago
sometimes i wonder when he said he sold hie soul to the devil,, i mean does it really maatter if he sell or not,, better focus on da music,, :)
JonSibuea 3 months ago
this is the best music there is! if you love raw blues you might like Rat Stomp :)
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Our song Reckless Woman and Searching the Forest have a Delta blues style with slide guitar and fingerpicking
ratstompmusic 4 months ago
mud-shshshark was here
muddshshshark 4 months ago
The song it's written by him. Is this also the original recording?
TheCoverHeaven 4 months ago
Probably because "Clapton is GOD." Therefore he will just manipulate the laws of nature and work it in everyones favor. Hell, it's probably already happened! :)
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noahelp1 4 months ago
This is real music! And i was born in 96, no "bieber fever" here.
proanagirl1 4 months ago
@proanagirl1 What an awesome thing to hear! Sounds like you definately agree with Elwood's great speech here: /watch?v=DmDjBONCXEo
Fiskaal 4 months ago
Robert Johnson, King Of The Delta Blues...what a guy!
cw85739 5 months ago 15
@cw85739 That's not Robert Johnson..it`s Satan.
TimeTravelinHendrix 2 months ago
cool footage
rockingrobot 5 months ago in playlist Johnson, Robert
gracias por compartir.
ninawnyx 6 months ago
If you like delta blues, check out Rat Stomp :)
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ratstompmusic 6 months ago
18 people must was died
geppettogeppo 6 months ago
excellent
GrungeFrench2 6 months ago
Swear I saw a Schaefer neon in a window. That was a NY beer. Sure this video was shot in Chicago???
xcellken1 6 months ago
I would like to know who are the 18 assholes that voted "I don't like it"
Zazzerino89 6 months ago 3
@Zazzerino89 Probably some fans of Lady Gaga...
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davidd7147 6 months ago
This is amazing footage and what a juxtaposition with the song. I always imagine RJ in a rural setting, I guess it's the sparseness of his lyrics. Still great work.
saorlab 6 months ago
I didn't know much about the blues and even less about Robert Johnson until the movie crossroads came out and then I grew to love it all. I find it amazing how even a movie can open your mind to the point that you look at life and music differently.
conservative259 7 months ago
one of my favourite blues song
outsider173 7 months ago
@GETRAPEDKID Nice spelling faggot.
666Emperor666 7 months ago
@GETRAPEDKID
The fact that you said niggas is really funny. It means the very people you hate have altered your way of speech. What a tight grip they have over your life. That's so ironic.
Also, you're a fucking joke. Take your racist bullshit off of this legends page you faggot.
666Emperor666 7 months ago
i love the way he says 'california'
mjtisc1 7 months ago
Some of the cars look post WWII, however I'm sure the city's look didn't change all that much in the 20-30 years before that. I always have to wonder how in the world people like Robert Johnson and the other blues guys came up with this stuff. Other than negro spirituals, white folk songs, and traditional African music, they had no background, only their genius to come up with this. Great stuff!
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1:03 Old grandpa walking with his grandson made me :'D
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antonsaidmeatloaf 7 months ago
If I could, I'd trade Justin Bieber and Lady GAGA for one 'Robert Johnson'. And you can take Eric Clapton as well. deal ?
themadaboutmusic 7 months ago 48
@themadaboutmusic I don't think the devil has internet ;) (He's the one to ask, according to the legend)
BIGBASS1992 5 months ago
@themadaboutmusic COME ON.
SparcoC4 5 months ago
@themadaboutmusic best deal ever!!!!!!!!!!!
TheTroeper 5 months ago
@themadaboutmusic why would you want to take Clapton? that guy is a legend.
kirkslashable 5 months ago
@themadaboutmusic but why clapton ??? hmm???
alasemeli 5 months ago
@themadaboutmusic Why the hell Clapton??!?!?!?
piuthemagicman 5 months ago
@piuthemagicman Simply compare what Robert Johnson'd done with his only guitar in hands, with the very same "Sweet Home Chicago" that Clapton did with his band. I'm sorry to say that Robert Johnson had made Clapton looks rather like a "Clumsy hands" than a "Slow hand"
No offense meant, but I gladly trade Clapton for just a glimpse of Robert Johnson playing his damn guitar!
themadaboutmusic 5 months ago 3
@themadaboutmusic Eric too?! Hmmm Kind of harsh. Tell you what. Throw in Big Bill Broonzy and you got yourself a deal. I will even throw in EVERY Hip Hop "singer" you can think of for FREE!
ASAdamson 5 months ago 2
@ASAdamson Deal of the century, I guess. : )
kinda hard to resist !
themadaboutmusic 5 months ago
@themadaboutmusic eric clapton my ass just take all the shitty pop singers, it is bad enough as it is with so few good musicians. take...i don't know....Slash
jlqa447 4 months ago
@themadaboutmusic are you kidding, why would you trade in clapton....he's the closest thing to blues we've got
seifs4 4 months ago
@seifs4 No he's not. He's good, but... no he's not. B.B. and Buddy are still alive, dude.
ThornfullessRose 2 months ago
@ThornfullessRose hahahah good one.....
seifs4 2 months ago
@seifs4 You really think he's better than BB King and Buddy Guy at the blues? You need to get your knowledge straight. He's the least closest thing to the blues if anything. Shows how much you know.
ThornfullessRose 2 months ago
@ThornfullessRose haha i never said that bb and buddy arent blues, your saying that clapton is barely blues though. he's as blues as they come.....
seifs4 2 months ago
@seifs4 And I never said you said that. You're saying that Clapton is better than BB and Buddy at the blues and that's just not true AT ALL. If you really think he's as blue as they come, you need to check if you know what the blues even are. If anything, he's a rock guitarist. Every time I've heard Clapton play blues, I cringe cause he just doesn't have it like the others. He has a "rock n roll heart" as he said himself. Clapton's attempts at blues are as good as Zeppelin's attempt at Reggae.
ThornfullessRose 2 months ago
@ThornfullessRose haha no I never said that.......if you look back, someone put "Give us robert for clapton" or something and I was saying thats stupid. I'd understand trading miley cyrus but not clapton.....
seifs4 2 months ago
@ThornfullessRose hahaha I love Zeppelin, but you are so right. D'yer Maker just doesn't cut it.
thetoughgetgoin 2 days ago
@themadaboutmusic Don't you dare sacrifice Eric Clapton. Give 'em Chuck Berry.
k286 3 months ago
@k286 Chuck Berry? Is this some sort of sarcasm?
luismendezs 3 months ago 3
@k286 WHAT?! There would be no rock n roll or guitar solos without Chuck Berry! The world could easily do without Clapton, though.
ThornfullessRose 2 months ago
@ThornfullessRose Eric Clapton is 10x the guitarist Chuck Berry could ever hope to be.
k286 2 months ago
@k286 Clapton wouldn't be as good if it wasn't for Chuck. In fact, every guitarist after Chuck wouldn't be as good as they are without Chuck Berry.
ThornfullessRose 2 months ago
@themadaboutmusic I'd give up almost all of the crap disney "stars" and pop "stars" for a robert johnson any day.... shit id trade my own soul for a robert johnson
HungryHerbproduction 3 months ago
@themadaboutmusic WHY CLAPTON!???
angustienelaposta 3 months ago 6
@themadaboutmusic I'm with you cat!!
SugarBlueHarp 3 months ago
@themadaboutmusic Clapton? Why?
higoshimaru 3 months ago 10
@themadaboutmusic Claptons a great guitarist
kildare97 2 months ago 2
@themadaboutmusic why do you have to even mention that cock?
ytpoliticsnigga 2 months ago
@themadaboutmusic Eric who? fuck that geezer....
the logo should read "Johnson is GOD"
amen
wreyoG 2 months ago
@themadaboutmusic screw you, clapton did an amazing job of covering crossroads
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Interesting to see videos of people who are now dead ....
1412Bunny 7 months ago
Very nice vid. Thanx for posting!!
tanan24 7 months ago in playlist blues&folk
Take that, Alabama.
kourosh89 7 months ago 3
Cool ass footage. What year is it from?
noeltheshemale 7 months ago
i hate to swear on this-but, how the fuck did you have this video! this is AMAZING! And thank you for posting this :-)
BaSSbrEAd1983 8 months ago
Hey @Muldoon, you said something about no one paid any mind to Robert Johnson and so on until the 60's, and so on. I would like to know what you base this on. And, I'd also like to know how old you are and where you're from. Not trying to flame or start a war. Just curious.
aavd 8 months ago
This is music man! This is a Bluesman!
UnnamedUnplugged 8 months ago
I Love It ! - Erkele
Erkele 8 months ago
i find something very chilling and spooky about robert johnson, and the birth of the blues, yet it's the greatest thing that has ever happened in the music industry.
Stratticus93 8 months ago
@Stratticus93 I agree. Vintage things are spooky to me, and just his songs kind of creep me out. I like them no doubt, but the songs about the crossroads and the devil just creep me out.
hunterstory7 8 months ago
@hunterstory7 It's definitely spooky as hell.. the lo fi quality and the "antiquity" of the sound... creeps me out, but I can't stop listening.
metalmonkey88 8 months ago
Many have tried doing a cover of Sweet Home Chicago, but no one can make it sound as good as Robert Johnson's version.
rmurbach1961 8 months ago
happy birthday robert your great music will never die.. rest in peace.
pinkfloydthewall100 8 months ago
Seventy three years after his death, folks are still in love with his music. Sweet Home Chicago was actually written by his friend Honeyboy Edwards, who is still jamming his guitar at 95.
rmurbach1961 8 months ago
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY ROBBIE!!!!!!
kronicdeath420 8 months ago 5
Happy Hundreth Birthday, Mr. Johnson - 8 May 2011
You inspired so many.....Clapton, Keith, and so many more to chop wood with their axes. But mostly, you inspired me cause I know you didn't make a deal but rather worked your ass off.......no shortcuts. Thanx Pops.
XKAHAN1 8 months ago 41
great upload man ...luv watchin old movies ..and songs of course
freaker126 8 months ago
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aaronamccoy 9 months ago
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aaronamccoy 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy fucking racist. just enjoy the blues
andydaskater 9 months ago
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aaronamccoy 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy shut up.
StorkorFifa 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy asshole im 16
andydaskater 9 months ago
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aaronamccoy 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy and how did you come up with that one Einstein?
andydaskater 9 months ago
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aaronamccoy 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy What the fuck is your problem?
vantageIIx 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy i would have to say i agree with white bald headed queers as i have a full set of hair and am from scotland you wank. i bet your a dumb inbred redneck
andydaskater 9 months ago
@andydaskater i'm over good luck to you andy
aaronamccoy 9 months ago
@aaronamccoy u gotta learn to respect all music except JB
LedZeppelin420x 9 months ago
i personally dont understand the whole liking system and why its on youtube but why do people bother disliking something? nevermind thats its this great song but just in general, what is the point in clicking on dislike? i just dont get it
bRYE4821 9 months ago 4
He had such an old soul for such a young guy.
doug1119 9 months ago
"Now six and two is eight
eight and two is ten
Friend-boy she trick you one time
she sure gonna do it again"
SonattaMorales 9 months ago
Actually a lot of white people listened to this in the 40's as I did. I lived in Nebraska and listened to a lot of blues on a Kansas City radio staion late at night.
wasjrs13 9 months ago
Absolutely GREAT!
I give Clapton and all those other watered down imitators credit for trying to duplicate and make awareness of the masters work, but perfection can never be matched!
allaboutrecords 9 months ago
@allaboutrecords i think thats unfair to call other blues guys "watered down imitators" you learn from the people that come before them so of course they are going to have similair styles or maybe try and copy this style. they are learing from and trying to spread something good not trying to imitate him.
andydaskater 9 months ago
california?
Ramtough93 9 months ago
LOVE IT!! awesome film!!! ;)
lucyjara 9 months ago
Acá en La Boca, un barrio pobre de Buenos Aires, nadie conoce a Robert Johnson. Pero a todos se nos escapa un lagrimón al oir su música!
EduCatalinas 9 months ago
Great film clip!
amberfwn 9 months ago
glad I'm getting to know this legend
textech00 10 months ago
great song and great video
EscobaroWhite 10 months ago
Love all of that old footage of Chicago. The north was a much better place to be than the south for black people at that time. Come to think of it, it still is!
terrybeaton 10 months ago
like:dislike ratio is beautiful
MrNatchural69 10 months ago
love robert johnson, love to play geetar like this dude :)
whitepeaches 10 months ago
glad he now as the respect he deserves
102oxley 10 months ago
Robert Johnson is the Mozart of the blues. He was way ahead of his time.
RetroJenny 10 months ago
Robert Johnson u r so beast!!!!!!!!!
fredsassy5 10 months ago
27 is a deadly age...
Qu1ckmarch 10 months ago 4
YES!!! FRICKEN YES!!!!! Nothing like the Blues played right baby.
schram21891 10 months ago
Did u fuckin see that evil look the white girl gave at 1:29?
rhcp4565 10 months ago 3
@rhcp4565 She's not white. Agreed though, you can tell those two have met before and it's not pleasant.
NoMoreVanilla 10 months ago
@NoMoreVanilla dude i'm pretty sure that is a white girl and her little white brother, that's why she gave the evil look at the black girl standing there
rhcp4565 10 months ago
@rhcp4565
gotta love how that black girl shrugged it off though, they had to be strong back then.
EscobaroWhite 10 months ago
only him can sing this song...
MrTheLighter 11 months ago
Put some distortion on that guitar, and you've got white rock 'n' roll. I mean, ALL of it. I don't give a fuck what style, every skinny white middleclass British kid wanted to be a fuckin' poor American black man in the 60s, and then they sold it to us because no-one would listen to "race" music over here when it came out in the first place.
brick0rockwell 11 months ago 4
@brick0rockwell Dude.... That is so freaking true. You just descried the situation perfectly.
dpramirez66 11 months ago
fabulous
StNige 11 months ago
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Urbshanator 11 months ago
The birth of rock n roll was in the 1950s, it's mom got pregnant in the 1920s.
beatlesman369 11 months ago 157
@beatlesman369 pretty long gestation period for musical genres. lol
splotkin258 10 months ago
Thank You Mr. Johnson!
AaronMcGeorge 11 months ago 6
R.I.P Robert Johnson
andreimihai08 11 months ago 11
This set what rock'n'roll would sound like for the next 20 years.
MuIdoon 11 months ago 5
@MuIdoon , Actually, whites were ignorant of Robert Johnson until Columbia issued a compilation album in the 1960s. Before that, nobody paid no mind to Robert Johnson. Even African-Americans, pre-1960, considered Johnson to be a very minor figure, if they had heard of him at all. No one cared about Johnson until Clapton and others spread the gospel in the 1960s.
guitarslim56 11 months ago 54
@guitarslim56
That's nothing short of the truth.
pancakez20 11 months ago
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amberfwn 9 months ago
@guitarslim56 How would you know what African Americans would think of Robert Johnson? When did you know an entire race? Wrong, many people loved Johnson way before Clapton, give me a break. Johnson's music was common among African Americans, he was one of many.
amberfwn 9 months ago
@amberfwn he spent most of hs life in prison. he had many fans there lol.
LoNgBoArDsFoRLiF 9 months ago
@amberfwn Robert Johnson only had one song released while he was still alive. It was a minor hit in Mississippi Delta. Son House and Robert Johnson's bandmates were the only ones who really held him in high regard. And of course the bars he ventured. Outside of the Delta, Robert Johnson was unheard of and in the Delta he had one minor hit. It was something that was quickly put on the backburner. RJ was forgotten amongst blacks and whites until Colombia issued "King of the Delta" in 1961.
wick2107 8 months ago
@guitarslim56 stop categorizing people period. we are humans but that was a different time & age at least the guitar greats were good enough to pay homage to Mr Johnson. Did Elvis pay tribute to all the people he 'borrowed' from? It was before the age of enlightenment that the present age is slowly representing. It was an age of ethnocentrism (as racism implies there are more than one and is an archaic term we shouldn't use anymore) and sadly some of the greats were lost... Not Mr J!! :)
ttdwarren 8 months ago in playlist Robert Johnson
@ttdwarren Elvis did list who wrote his songs. And Elvis would sing them in a completely different way. But id Elvis did not sing their songs their names would have been lost. Also, blues musicians have borrowed each other since slavery. Muddy Waters essentially "stole" Rollin Stone (Catfish Blues) and John Lee Hooker took lick after lick. Blues musicians have covered each other since forever ago. They really do not care.
wick2107 8 months ago
@guitarslim56 You are speaking the truth! Yet those who were hired to run NPR shows in America based on the "The Blues" wanted to ignore that fact. In 1977 NPR wanted to speak through "liberal guilt", that Eric Clapton, and the rest of the British blues boom , never happened!! The reason they did that is because "IT'S THE TRUTH"!!! Without the British Blues boom of the late 60's, Americans would not care who Robert Johnson was. White Americans would not like Blues music today.
strangeones4 8 months ago 3
@strangeones4 Bullshit, stop with the conspiracy theories.
MrTruthAddict 8 months ago
@MrTruthAddict I thought it was BS until I talked to a guy why actually hosted a Blues show for NPR over thirty years. He thinks Eric Clapton is the anti-christ. Paul Butterfield is barely acceptable because he was born in America, but he believes anyone born outside of the US is unworthy of playing the blues. These people exist.
strangeones4 8 months ago
@strangeones4 Yeah. America didn't want to listen to it. But they were respected and admired overseas.
Son of a the Turkish ambassador to the US in the 30's, Ahmet Ertegün would listen to blues and jazz records. His first venture to DC with his father, he went into a white record shop to find he couldn't find the American records he bought in Europe. The store clerk knew what he wanted and happily sent him to the black record shops. Ahmet went on to found Atlantic Records.
johndlasley 6 months ago
guitarslim56, that's pretty sad seeing how Johnson was soooo talented!
Vanillablooos 7 months ago
@guitarslim56 most people are still ignorant of robert johnson.....
jhbhbvbvbnbmnb 7 months ago
@guitarslim56 , Actually Robert Johnson is credited to have written this legendary blues standard.. "Sweet Home Chicago"
UJIN88 6 months ago
@guitarslim56 your absolutely right none of the old blues greats who actually wrote the songs plyed by the modern musicians get any credit till years after there already dead and gone
FallingUCK 6 months ago
@FallingUCK Or if they lived till the 60s they were popular again
kildare97 6 months ago
@guitarslim56 Yes His records sold poorly
kildare97 6 months ago
nice footage, great city, great song
cmat22 11 months ago
when you think about religion you think about Jesus but when you think about blues and rock n roll robert johnson is the man.
andreiayala 11 months ago
YEAH...sure.rock is sped up blues licks.metal is sped up rock.
but they sound totally different to the blues.WAAY different.
rock and metal are re-hashed blues licks.BLUES IS SIMPLY BLUES.
whatever influence came from the down home sound which is called "country" music and the blues well that came from "oppression".rock and metal sound nothing like it.now go away.
gibsongold1970 1 year ago
@gibsongold1970 You don't know what you are talking about, you can't take a genre and seperate it from everything and say this is blues, or this is rock, or this is metal, genres are mixed, pulled apart all the time, this is Delta Blues, Jimi Hendrix is psycadellic blues, rhythm & blues, whatever you want to call it, and even though he sounds different with tone, playing style etc. he is playing blues, yeah it came from oppression, he was poor, but guess what, Jimi mixed Rock and Roll with blues
801Current 11 months ago
@801Current you can't base music on what its about, you can make a happy blues song, a metal song about love, it's up the the artist, and the influences that play into their music is taking from different genres, you can't seperate the genre and say this is blues nothing else is. It doesn't work.
801Current 11 months ago
The only similarity between hip hop and delta blues is that they were both controversial in their time and there were a whole load of know-it-alls who thought that their opinion was worth more than the paper it was written on..
AdelaideDavid 1 year ago
i didnt have the privelage of being exposed to this amazing golden ear nectar when i was growing up,this is only a recent discovery,but id just like to say thanks to mr robbie j and the rest of the great blues legends for paving the way for some of the great musicians we have today.without them im sure music would be very dull and dreary.much love.
ShanieSuperBoy 1 year ago
Please STFU about what you are or are not into and kick back to this classic.
4oldskool 1 year ago
there is nothing musical about hip-hop.sorry friEnd.but i just CANT HEAR IT.LOL
gibsongold1970 1 year ago
hip-hop has nothing to do with this style of music.
neither does metal or rock.
this IS the real deal.REAL MUSIC.
not over produced fake garbage.
BLUES RULES.
gibsongold1970 1 year ago
@gibsongold1970 while i agree with you that there is a lot of garbage coming from the other genres that you mentioned, I would like to say that there is really great stuff coming from there. I would also like to disagree with the statement that hip-hop and rock have nothing to do with this style of music. A real musician would know that they draw heavily from this, whether it is directly or not. You my friend, have shown musical ignorance.
rdyohad14 1 year ago
@gibsongold1970 really? You're right about hip hop having nothing to do with blues, but rock & metal have direct and primary influences from blues. It is even logical to claim that blues is the grandfather of all forms of "rock" and its derivatives today. 'Nuff trollin now.
LordA321 1 year ago