'Slidin' Delta' TOMMY JOHNSON (1929) Delta Blues Guitar Legend

[kdwilent]

I believe this isTommy Johnson's best song!

[AlpinKirkonen]

this is a great track

does anyone have lyrics?

[ELVIS4221]

BOBBY FLAT OUT STOLE IT. I CANT BELIEVE TOMMY ONLY RECORDED FOR ONLY TWO YEARS AND MADE SUCH AN IMPACT ON MUSIC AND ME. I CANT BELIEVE THAT HE LIVED TIL 60, DRINKING THAT ROUGH STUFF. I WISH HE COULD HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO GET REDISCOVERED IN THE EARLY SIXTIES LIKE SO MANY OTHER GREAT BLACK BLUES SINGER DID. NEVERTHELESS, BONNY LOVED HIM SO MUCH, SHE BOUGHT HIM A HEADSTONE. SWEET GIRL.

[bufoarborealis]

This may be his best, so soulful. Pray someday the sound can be cleaned up.

[minorkatminor]

Damn this could be digitally cleaned up better than this.

[Hoopermazing]

This is the guy in "O Brother, Where Art Thou." Not Robert Johnson.

FYI, Robert Johnson ripped off the whole Faustian Crossroads thing from Tommy. Or at least Tommy was using that gimmick first.