But even if they are, that’s still somewhat questionable. Hopefully his family is receiving royalties from all this. He was paid a total of thirty-eight dollars. But one thing that’s kinda mind-blowing, when you hear Clapton and the Stones and all these people doing these unbelievable songs, is that the guy never made a dime. “These songs were unknowingly instrumental in the creation of rock’n’roll. "If you ever talked to BB King, he’d say: ‘No, that’s bullshit. “That whole thing about going to the crossroads and selling your soul to the devil…" says Trout. An itinerant musician from Mississippi who was dead by the age of 27 – supposedly poisoned by the jealous husband of one of his sexual conquests – he is most often associated with the classic blues myth about selling his soul to the devil in a midnight pact at a Delta crossroads. Cross Road Blues is incredible too, the guitar playing and the singing."Ĭentral to Johnson’s enduring appeal is his air of mystery. In the canon of the blues, his songs are really top of the heap. They’re universal and they’re lasting and they’re classic. “But to me, the reason he’s considered in a league of his own – among all those other guys like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Charley Patton and Blind Willie Johnson – is because of his songs.
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