NEW ROBERT JOHNSON Discovies!

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  • Hardrock69
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Feb 2005
    • 21888
    #1

    NEW ROBERT JOHNSON Discovies!

    Just bought the new issue of Guitar World with Jeff Beck on the cover.

    Inside is an article about Robert, mainly built around an interview with Honeyboy Edwards, the last living individual to have known and played music with Robert.

    Anyway, checked out the title page of the article, then looked to my left at some old photo....

    It was a newly discovered photo of a young Robert Johnson with his friend Johnny Shines!!!

    And it is a full-page image!

    Apparently this info was published back in 2008. Did not even know about this until today.

    Here is a link to the 2008 Vanity Fair article about the image, and yes there the pic is on that page. It is a good, in-depth 5-page article, detailing not just Robert's life and times, but the fucking bullshit lawsuits flying over the past 40 years over who controls the rights to Robert's estate:

    Searching for Robert Johnson
    http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/11/johnson200811
    In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown—the tragically short life, the “crossroads” tale of supernatural talent, the genuine gift that inspired Dylan, Clapton, and other greats—but his image remains elusive: only two photos of Johnson have ever been seen by the public. In 2005, on eBay, guitar maven Zeke Schein thought he’d found a third. Schein’s quest to authenticate the picture, Frank DiGiacomo discovers, only led to more questions, both about Johnson himself and about who controls his valuable legacy.


    Then, as I got to reading the article, I found that Columbia Records is releasing a special package to commemorate what would be Robert's 100th birthday this year. They are releasing the 41 known tracks recorded by Robert.....

    PLUS A NEWLY DISCOVERED 42nd TRACK! Not a new 'song', it is an alternate take of "Traveling Riverside Blues", but what the fuck! How fucking cool is this???!!!

    No reason for me to be so excited, but then, what the hell. Why not?
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    • SunisinuS
      Crazy Ass Mofo
      • May 2010
      • 3301
      #2
      Dang look at the size of his hands.
      Can't Control your Future. Can't Control your Friends. The women start to hike their skirts up. I didn't have a clue. That is when I kinda learned how to smile a lot. One Two Three Fouir fun ter thehr fuur.

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        • Hardrock69
          DIAMOND STATUS
          • Feb 2005
          • 21888
          #3
          He gots some long fucking fingers for sure.

          Just like Jim Hendrix had some huge fucking hands. Just watch any footage of Hendrix and see how his thumb hangs over the top of the neck so much it almost goes all the way across the width of the fretboard!

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