possessed ....

Robert Johnson, a young, black cotton pickers from the backwoods Mississippi would give anything the best blues guitarist of all times to be.
someone gives him a tip at midnight at a particular intersection near Dockery Plantation aufzukreuzen and there he meets the devil, of the guitar Young man ineptly, agrees and returns to him.

the deal: robert johnson is within one year of the king of the Delta blues ascend and write songs full of disturbing magic, but he pledged the horned devil keeps his seele.der actually his word.
Johnson is to classics to legend his compositions. Throughout his life Johnson with demons to fight the rage in his blackened soul.

part of his torment he processed in his songs, the rest in destructive love affairs. his last fling with the wife of a bar owner from Greenwood / Mississippi is fatal for the young man. the dispensing champion Johnson poisoned and after days of struggle on the sickbed it must his soul to the grinning guitar tuner from the intersection near the Dockery Plantation cede.

as far to the numerous myths and legends that these exceptional guitarists becloud. But the fact is that life is more about Johnson's little known, there are degrees of this man times two photos.
rather corresponds to the truth probably the Johnson a big fan of Lonnie Johnson was, who loved slides of Son House. he goes for one year at ike Zinnemann apprenticed, a local musician from which there is no photos or recordings and touring across the country, attended performances in small jazz bars and pubs and soon gets a reputation and the nickname "Hellboy ".

Johnson developed an original style of the deposed primarily by percussive boogie basslines on the lowest string and using inversions and repetitions of the playing styles of his contemporaries. slides he pushes casual with open tunings and a broken bottle neck on the little finger. hammer-ons enrich his playing technique. to play his virtuoso art often can accept the two guitarists at work here are so filling and groundbreaking he worked his instrument, the way a Kalamazoo. they say he also play a Gibson L-1, which I do not think so because the pictures do not speak one of the quality of an L-1.

single shots came from his grade times two sessions! which he graduated from in 1936 and 1937 dallas texas and under primitive conditions. Legend Johnson played always sitting on a chair for shots in the corner facing the wall. that would explain the very central sound anyway and sounds plausible to me.

this compi offers the only complete overview of the work of teufelblusers, making history and indispensable.

Anyway the like have been twenty-something the hell, songs of the caliber of "terraplane blues", "Heel Hound On My Trail," "Me and the Devil Blues", "Cross Road Blues" or "Traveling Riverside Blues" press a restlessness and a pain like one hears rarely taken in shades him.

this unique publication offers in addition also still the only two photos of this man.

the sound quality is obviously not audiophile, the recordings are, after all, almost 75 years old and you have to remember that Johnson on a fairly cheap Kalamzoo guitar playing because the money was not enough. but what mystical, magical sound it produces here is incredible. he is honest and authentic and that's great !!

Conclusion: great thing about little money. the box illuminates the short create this exception rounder. a musthave. neither the guitar retains its influence can be hassle-legendary !!!