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Crossroads. The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson. 9780981600215

Crossroads. The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson

Demers Books LLC. 2008

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  • EAN: 9780981600215
  • ISBN: 978-0-9816002-1-5
  • Editorial: Demers Books LLC
  • Fecha de edición: 2008
  • Encuadernación: Rústica
  • Dimensiones: 13,5x21
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 133

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When Robert Johnson was younger, he liked to go to the juke joints and listen to musicians like Son House. It wasn?t long before Johnson began playing guitar in-between sets, a performance few people appreciated.

?Robert, he?d get the guitar and go to bamming with it, you know?? House told a writer years later. ?Just keeping noise, and the people didn?t like that. They?d come and tell us, ?Why don?t you or Willie [Brown] go in there and stop that boy? He?s driving everybody nuts.??

Two years later, when House heard Johnson play again, he couldn?t believe the change. ?And that boy got started off playing ? and when he got through, all our mouths were standing open. All! He was gone!?

How did Johnson become so good so fast? He made a pact with the devil at the crossroads, according to legend. Several years later Johnson died of mysterious causes. He was only 27. The devil, some say, came to collect his soul as payment.

In this new, highly readable biography of Johnson?s life, music critic and novelist Tom Graves gives you the real story behind the ?Crossroads Legend.? But the debunking of that myth doesn?t lessen the appreciation that contemporary musicians and blues fans have of Johnson, who is said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword, by Steve LaVere

Preface: Fact, Myth and the Musician

Introduction: The Lowland Mississippi Delta Plantation Blues
The Life of Robert Johnson
1. The Early Years
2. Johnson as a Young Man
3. The Walking Musician Years
4. The Recording Years
5. Death of a Delta Bluesman
The Afterlife of Robert Johnson
6. Legend of the Crossroads
7. John Hammond Resurrects Johnson
8. A New Audience
9. A Global Phenomenon
10. The Movie That Changed the Legend
11. The Feud Over the Johnson Photos
12. The Complete Recordings Defies Sales Expectations
13. A Son Is Found
14. The 3.5-Second Piece of Celluloid
Afterword
Legends Live On
Appendix
A Brief Discussion of Johnson?s Music
Bibliography
Index



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