" I Believe Ill Dust My Broom " (1936,San Antonio) ROBERT JOHNSON EARLY COUNTRY BLUES Alger "Texas" Alexander Pink Anderson Barbecue Bob Hicks Scrapper Blackwell Black Ace Blind Blake Big Bill Broonzy Richard "Rabbit" Brown Willie Brown Bumble Bee Slim Gus Cannon Bo Carter Sam Collins Floyd Council Ida Cox (1896-1967) Gary Davis (1896-1972) Sleepy John Estes (1904-1977) Blind Boy Fuller (1908-1941) Jesse Fuller (1896-1976) Billy Garland (1918-1960) Jazz Gillum (1904-1966) Shirley Griffith (1908-1974) Arvella Gray (1906-1980) Smokey Hogg (1914-1960) Lightnin Hopkins (1912-1982) Son House (c. 1902-1988) Peg Leg Howell (1888-1966) Alberta Hunter (1895-1984) Mississippi John Hurt (c. 1893-1966) Jim Jackson (c. 1884-1937) John Jackson Skip James (1902-1969) Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929) Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945) Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970) Robert Johnson (1911-1938) Tommy Johnson (1896-1956) Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter (c. 1889-1949) Furry Lewis (1899-1981) Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976) Cripple Clarence Lofton (1887-1957) Robert Lockwood, Jr. (1915-2006) Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904-1972) Brownie McGhee (1915-1996) Blind Willie McTell (1901-1959) The Memphis Jug Band Big Maceo Merriweather (1905-1953) Eugene "Buddy" Moss (c. 1914-1984) Memphis Minnie (1897-1973) Charlie Patton (1891-1934) Piano Red (1911-1985) Ma Rainey (1886-1939) Tampa Red (1904-1981) Bessie Smith (1894-1937) Victoria Spivey (1908-1976) Frank Stokes (c. 1888-1955) Sonny Terry (1911-1986 <b>…<b>
I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom [Remastered] ROBERT JOHNSON (1936) Delta Blues Guitar Legend
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This track is one man, one take, records were just being born. The engineer speculated it was partially so "ghostly sounding" because he played facing a corner and the sound bounced off the wall back into the mic after being initially captured.
o.O They look like normal fingers to me
The sound of rock’s oldest engine, now 75 years old, chugging along—played by one man on one guitar.
It’s called a diddley bow. People of African origin have been playing them for thousands of years. Many American black guitarists started this way.
It’s called a diddley bow. People of African origin have been playing them for thousands of years. Many American black guitarists started this way.
The melody eventually became Robert Johnson’s ‘I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom’, via Kokomo Arnold who used the phrase "dust my broom" in ‘Sedgefield Woman Blues’. But Johnson’s song was revolutionary at the time for its boogie beat, it sounds nothing new now but was revolutionary at the time. Carr was very popular and his songs were covered by Count Basie, Muddy Waters (first song he learned was Carr’s ‘How Long How Long’) & Ray Charles & he was an influence on Nat King Cole & Sam Cooke.
Ladies and Gentleman, this is where it all started.
Did Robert Johnson write this song??? Or was it Elmore James? I am well aware that Johnson recorded first, but James toured with Johnson and to this days no one knows who really wrote it. Even Honeyboy Edwards, who was friends and played along side both of them, claimed that he didn’t know which of them wrote it!
This is real BLUES !
Maybe someone said this earlier but two of the artists in your list, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, were the artists that gave the band Pink Floyd their namesake. Just a little trivia! Great tune!
Maybe someone said this earlier but two of the artists in your list, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, were the artists that gave the band Pink Floyd their namesake. Just a little trivia! Great tune!
Personally, I was shocked.
All i can say is in 2012, RJ still makes a lot of (cyber) ink flow!
Arresting questions these conjectures pose..
Looking at his pic up there, after comment ballad, i feel he’s there looking at us talk and say yay, that’s cool man..
Naaaaaa, outcome of that is up to each Soul
our actions contain the seeds of their consequences
this being said, i be working on that ‘grace under pressure’ thing now 😉
Happy trails….
Can’t wait! We be goin’ to hell in a bucket! W Robert Johnson & The Grateful Dead! This i have to see…………… Venue please? On sale yet?
ditto 🙂 variety is the spice of life 🙂
Music of the Spheres, my friend 😀
It’s saved my life over and over again
hope it works this time around 2..
yeah but, those were originally recorded to tape and that’s a very fragile media… It’s easy to fiddle w timing when you edit video or audio, so people sometimes thought they were ‘compensating’ damage (tapes loosen by age, and Southern heat) by tweaking it up a notch. From my little knowledge, lots of these ole Blues were often slow to begin with. It was in keeping w mood and environment of composers too…. Hot n heavy hearted
now that is DEAD wrong and a cultural shame, this anthropologist says. woe on the buck makers
amen
sounds like wolfgang amadeus……
excuse me?
not racist huh, just sexist
Poor idiot speck of dust in the universe.
Without women you wouldn’t even be ALIVE
maybe your mom has low morals
Mine doesn’t.
so stop generalizing like an 5 year old idiot that’s never been to school!
That and the record companies would speed some tracks up to make them more exciting.
Because time brings changes, and technology of one era is not necessarily compatible w another.
It confuses me. I just listened to sped up version of ‘Ticket to Ride’ Why? Why?
Lolll ain’t the Universe grand! changing things on us all the time…. gotta love that
they started it all… 🙂