Thread: What are you listening to right now

Traveling Riverside Blues ~ Robert Johnson

Led zep did a cover of this one a few decades later, somethng bout "squeeze my lemon 'til the juice run down my leg?" interesting to listen to this guys recordings and then listen to the covers. John lee hooker, eric clapton, howlin wolf, Rolling stones, Led Zep, a few hundred others.

Guy was murdered in 1938 at 27 years old, poisoned with a whiskey & strychnine cocktail. In the few short years he was around he left a legacy that no one can rival. He was still a kid. His influence on Blues, R&B and rock & Roll is amazing. This is the guy that really did start it all. I wonder what the music scene would be like if he'd a just kept his dick in pants that one time...

Originally Posted by wikipedia

His death occurred on August 16, 1938, at the age of 27 at a little country crossroads near Greenwood, Mississippi. He had been playing for a few weeks at a country dance in a town about 15 miles (24 km) from Greenwood.

There are a number of accounts and theories regarding the events preceding Johnson's death. One of these is that one evening Johnson began flirting with a woman at a dance. One version of this rumor says she was the wife of the juke joint owner, while another suggests she was a married woman he had been secretly seeing. Researcher Mack McCormick claims to have interviewed Johnson's alleged poisoner in the 1970s, and obtained a tacit admission of guilt from the man. When he was offered an open bottle of whiskey, his friend and fellow blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson knocked the bottle out of his hand, informing him that he should never drink from an offered bottle that has already been opened. Robert Johnson allegedly said, "don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand". Soon after, he was offered another open bottle and accepted it. That bottle was laced with strychnine. Johnson is said to have survived the initial poisoning only to succumb to pneumonia three days later, in his weakened state. His life was short but his music would serve as the root source for an entire generation of blues and rock and roll musicians.