Robert Johnson's 'Sweet Home Chicago' played by Pete Lashley (Leighton Hall Sessions)

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Pete plays the Robert Johnson blues classic 'Sweet Home Chicago'.

The lyrics in the song are somewhat ambiguous where making reference to 'Sweet Home Chicago' being in 'the land of California'. Perhaps in this context the 'land of California' represents some kind of utopian land
of milk and honey where Robert Johnson dreams his sweet home Chicago is, as opposed to the actual geographical location of California on the western extremities of the United States - a long way in reality from Chicago, Illinois.

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911-August 16th, 1938) was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi and has become a legend in the world of blues music. His shadowy poorly documented life and death - his roving from town to town, his alleged womanizing, his encounter with the devil at a crossroads and his likely murder (possibly poisoned by a jealous husband or girlfriend in Greenwood, Mississippi) - have accentuated this legend.
Johnson's fame and notoriety were not entirely posthumous. His recordings brought a wider recognition of his talents during his own lifetime. Indeed he was scheduled to perform at the first 'Spirituals to Swing' concert at Carnegie Hall when he died in August 1938.

Lashley's version of 'Sweet Home Chicago' features on his 2010 album release 'It All Comes Round'.

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• Pete Lashley
• Sweet Home Chicago
• Robert Johnson
• Blues
• Acoustic

[louie11n11]

Amazing rendition..

[sakis7777]

very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man