Blues. Robert Johnson. The Man On The Crossroads.

A visit to blues legend Robert Johnson's grave in rural Mississippi.


Can't You Hear the Wind Howl

2SergeK:

>Все тексты...
>The Robert Johnson Notebooks
>http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSIC/rjhome.html

содержит:


1. Kindhearted Woman Blues
2. Rambling On My Mind
3. When You Got A Good Friend
4. Come On In My Kitchen
5. Terraplane Blues
6. Phonograph Blues
7. Cross Road Blues
8. Walking Blues
9. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
10. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
11. Stones In My Passway
12. I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
13. From Four Till Late
14. Hellhound On My Trail
15. Drunken Hearted Man
16. Me and the Devil Blues
17. Honeymoon Blues (текст отсутствует)
18. Love in Vain

29-18= где ещё 11?

2Maryless:
Значит, там не все :р
На все!
http://www.deltahaze.com/johnson/lyrics.html

Спасибо. Не все!

1. They're Red Hot
2. Milkcow's Calf Blues
3. Honeymoon Blues
4. Traveling Riverside Blues
5. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
6. Little Queen of Spades
7. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
8. Kindhearted Woman Blues
9. I Believe I'll dust My Broom
10. Sweet Home Chicago
11. Ramlin' on My Mind
12. When You got a Good Friend
13. Come On In My Kitchen
14. Terraplane Blues
15. Phonograph Blues
16. 32-20 Blues
17. Dead Shrimp Blues
18. Cross Road Blues
19. Walking Blues
20. Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
21. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
22. Stones in My Passway
23. I'm a Steady Rollin Man
24. From Four Till Late
25. Hellhound On My Trail
26. Drunken Hearted Man (take 1)
27. Me and the Devil Blues (take 1)
28. Love in Vain (take 1)


№29 - ?

Malted Milk
by Robert Johnson

recording of 5th of 5 sessions, June 20 1937, Dallas, Texas
from The Complete Recordings (CBS 467246 2 & Columbia/Legacy C2K-46222 & Columbia 4622 & Sony 64916), copyright notice

I keep drinkin' malted milk, try'n to drive my blues away
I keep drinkin' malted milk, try'n to drive my blues away
Baby, you just as welcome to my lovin', as the flowers is in May

Malted milk, malted milk, keep rushin' to my head
Malted milk, malted milk, keep rushin' to my head
And I have a funny, funny feelin', and I'm talkin' all out my head

Baby, fix me one more drink, and hug your daddy one more time
Baby, fix me one more drink, and hug your daddy one more time
Keep on stirrin' my malted milk mama, until I change my mind

My door knob keeps on turnin', it must be spooks around my bed
My door knob keeps on turnin', must be spooks around my bed
I have a warm, old feelin', and the hair risin' on my head

30-ой нет. Извини!

malt - солод

Malted milk - a variation of a milk shake only you add a spoonful of malt, an extra ingrediant that gives it an additional malted flavor.

Malt is a wheat byproduct, grain (as barley) softened by steeping in water, allowed to germinate, and used especially in brewing and distilling.

Кстати (или некстати) о солоде. Наткнулся как-то на разъяснения некоторых слов и выражений, употребляемых в блюзах:
http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/blueslanguage.htm
Кое-что оказалось полезным. "Mojo" и так все знают, насчет "squeeze my lemon" можно догадаться, а вот про "hot foot powder" (в Hellhound On My Trail) интересно было прочитать.

2 The Word:
спасибо за интересную ссылку.


Возвращаясь к количеству песен.
30-й нет, но есть 41-я.

Robert Johnson
The complete Recordings

Album Details

Date of Release: 1990
Album Duration: 104:28
Bitrate/Quality: up to CD-DA Genre: Blues
Style: Country Blues, Delta Blues, Prewar Blues, Prewar Country Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
Tracks List

1 Kind Hearted Woman Blues (Take 1) 2:52
2 Kind Hearted Woman Blues (Take 2) 2:30
3 I Believe I Ll Dust My Broom 3:00
4 Sweet Home Chicago 2:59
5 Ramblin On My Mind (Take 1) 2:52
6 Ramblin On My Mind (Take 2) 2:24
7 When You Got A Good Friend (Take 1) 2:39
8 When You Got A Good Friend (Take 2) 2:53
9 Come On In My Kitchen (Take 1) 2:52
10 Come On In My Kitchen (Take 2) 2:45
11 Terraplane Blues 3:01
12 Phonograph Blues (Take 1) 2:40
13 Phonograph Blues (Take 2) 2:33
14 32-20 Blues 2:50
15 They`re Red Hot 2:59
16 Dead Shrimp Blues 2:32
17 Cross Road Blues (Take 1) 2:40
18 Cross Road Blues (Take 2) 2:30
19 Walkin` Blues 2:30
20 Last Fair Deal Gone Down 2:37
21 Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil) 2:52
22 If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day 2:36
23 Stones In My Passway 2:29
24 I`m A Steady Rollin` Man 2:37
25 From Four `til Late 2:25
26 Hell Hound On My Trail 2:37
27 Little Queen Of Spades (Take 1) 2:13
28 Little Queen Of Spades (Take 2) 2:19
29 Malted Milk 2:22
30 Drunken Hearted Man (Take 1) 2:28
31 Drunken Hearted Man (Take 2) 2:28
32 Me And The Devil Blues (Take 1) 2:36
33 Me And The Devil Blues (Take 2) 2:34
34 Stop Breakin` Down Blues (Take 1) 2:18
35 Stop Breakin` Down Blues (Take 2) 2:23
36 Traveling Riverside Blues 2:46
37 Honeymoon Blues 2:18
38 Love In Vain (Take 1) 2:26
39 Love In Vain (Take 4) 2:18
40 Milkcow`s Calf Blues (Take 2) 2:18
41 Milkcow`s Calf Blues (Take 3) 0:27

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
Asked the lord above for mercy, save me if you please.

The Lady and Mr. Johnson
Rory Block
Audio CD (August 15, 2006)

Track Listings
1. Cross Road Blues
2. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
3. Milkcow's Calf Blues
4. Walking Blues
5. Blues
6. Rambling on My Mind
7. Terraplane Blues
8. Me and the Devil Blues
9. Last Fair Deal Gown Down
10. Come in My Kitchen
11. Hellhound on My Trail
12. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
13. Kind Hearted Woman Blues

2Primal Scream:
>The Lady and Mr. Johnson
Neveroyatno!

THE guitar used by legendary blues singer Robert Johnson is up for sale - at more than £3million.

Johnson, said to have have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his musical ability, used the Gibson L1 acoustic guitar on his only two recording sessions.

The Texas sessions in 1936 and 1937 produced 29 songs that were a huge influenced on future stars such as Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan ??" and led Johnson to be dubbed the father of rock 'n' roll. The current owner only realised he had Johnson's guitar when a boxed set of the singer's work was re-released in 1990 complete with a picture of him playing the battered instrument.


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The Gibson L1s were handmade between 1926 and 1930 - and each is unique. Experts who studied both the Johnson picture and the guitar confirm they are identical. The anonymous owner is selling the guitar through memorabilia website Moments In Time for £3.25million. But famous fans such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Morgan Freeman could yet start a bidding war.


Relatively little is known about Mississippi-born Johnson, apart from the fact he died in 1938 aged just 27 - probably after drinking whisky poisoned by the jealous husband of a lover.


Eric Clapton, who released an album of cover versions of the bluesman's songs in 2004 titled Me and Mr Johnson, has called him "the most important blues musician who ever lived".


Scores of other modern acts have also covered his songs. Led Zeppelin did Travelling Riverside Blues, The Rolling Stones covered Love in Vain and Stop Breaking Down, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers sang They're Red Hot.

Не Роберт Джонсон, но навеяно...

THUNDER Robert Johnson's Tombstone
(2006 11-track CD album - The UK's biggest & most popular Classic Rock band have returned with the follow-up to 2005's 'The Magnificent 7th' and includes 'Robert Johnson's Tombstone' which Luke Morley has described as being "all about the mythology surrounding the legendary and influential bluesman").
30-Oct-2006

1. Robert Johnson's Tombstone
2. Dirty Dream
3. A Million Faces
4. Don't Wanna Talk About Love
5. The Devil Made Me Do It
6. Last Man Standing
7. My Darkest Hour
8. Andy Warhol Said
9. What A Beautiful Day
10. It's All About You
11. Stubborn Kinda Love

Robert Johnson's Graves


Finding Blues Legend Robert Johnson's Grave

Когда я смотрел фильм братьев Коэнов "O Brother, Where Art Thou", то обратил внимание на одного героя, черного гитариста по имени Томми Джонсон. Поскольку он там упоминал сделку с дьяволом (обмен души на умение играть), то я, конечно, подумал, что имеется в виду Роберт Джонсон. Однако потом я вспомнил, что ведь и на самом деле был такой блюзмен, Томми Джонсон, и меня заинтересовало, почему авторы фильма тему сделки с дьяволом связали именно с ним, а не с Робертом Джонсоном. И вот что нашел:

"The character of Tommy Johnson is based on famed blues guitarist of the same name who, according to folk legend, sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads in exchange for his prodigious talent. Robert Johnson, another bluesman and a contemporary of Tommy's (but no relation), borrowed the legend and wrote a song about it (and so the soul-selling legend was subsequently, wrongly, attributed to Robert Johnson)."
( http://imdb.com/title/tt0190590/trivia)

Нашел на АМС статью про Томми Джонсона, и там сказано:

"Then there's the crossroads story. Yes, years before the deal with the Devil at a deserted Delta crossroad was being used as an explanation of the other-worldly abilities of young Robert Johnson, the story was being told repeatedly about Tommy, often by the man himself to reinforce his abilities to doubting audiences."
( http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?...7BAFFF28E85B0DD9C8E85CFFDD765D40&sql=11:dq6wtra9kl2x~T1)

Короче, выходит, что легенда о продаже души дьяволу на самом деле принадлежит Томми Джонсону, а Роберт Джонсон ею лишь воспользовался.

2The Word:
>Короче, выходит, что легенда о продаже души дьяволу на самом деле принадлежит Томми Джонсону, а Роберт
>Джонсон ею лишь воспользовался

если внимательно проследить за творчеством Роберта, то станет ясно, что он много чем воспользовался. Другой вопрос в том, что он был явно лучше авторов. Как и в случае с Томми.

Кстати, игравший Томми - Крис Томас Кинг оч хорош на своей акустической пластинке, где есть песни обоих Джонсонов.

2 SergeK

Да, все они пользовались всем, чем можно было, включая имена (например, Sonny Boy Williamson). Но в данном случае интересно, что легенда о перекрестке в восприятии публики намертво связалась с именем Роберта Джонсона, который в этом смысле был всего лишь эпигоном (это я исключительно об истории со сделкой с дьяволом). Возможно, обстоятельства его смерти тоже сыграли свою роль.

Кстати, если уж по большому счету, то надо вспомнить и Паганини (о котором оба Джонсона вряд ли слыхали) :-)

Альбом Криса Томаса Кинга мне понравился, но второй раз его слушать не потянуло. Чего-то не хватает (мне).

Есть ли у кого-нибудь из москвичей сей фильм в формате ДВД?

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl?

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