"Terraplane Blues" is a blues song recorded in 1936 in San Antonio, Texas by bluesman Robert Johnson. The car model Terraplane becomes a metaphor for sex. "T…
ROBERT JOHNSON Terraplane Blues (1936)
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thank you very much for this.. 🙂
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This so much. There are plenty of great guitarists. No reason we can’t like them all.
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I agree.
Yeah, I believe that was in reference to Richards’ reworking of Johnson’s Love In Vain. Keith really found the bottom of that song with his interpretation of it for the Stones.
I read a quote from Clapton a long time ago, and cannot find it again, that the only person he ever saw play Robert Johnson, unaccompanied, and sound "right" was Keith Richards. Would be interesting to know if this is true… likely not anymore since Keith is getting up there and losing his chops (still mad respect for him).
Finally, a kindered soul!! You actually GET IT! You are so right it is NOT a contest. If you play yourself, and playin your guitar brings a smile to your soul, then that’s all you get, as it is all that you should need. If listening to someone else’s music brings a smile to your soul, then it is good, to you. I’ve been playing for over 40 years now, and I’ll never play like Robert Johnson, an I’m good with that, and it doesn’t make me any less joyful in my playing, or of my enjoyment of him.
Sure, but who’s to say that Johnson could play the ‘Crossroads’ lead or do what Clapton did.
I think it’s a waste of time trying to compare musicians across the years just because they superficially play the same music.
I can’t argue with that. But I would note that bands such as LZ aren’t really doing what RJ was doing except in the loosest sense. They are playing amped up versions of the blues that really stands apart from those old delta blues guys. It’s not the same music except in name only
I think to compare Clapton (Cream) or LZ or Hendrix, Jack White… with the old delta bluesmen is probably pushing the relationship too far.
Also, my comment, came across harsher than I intended, and I apologize.
I wish Robert Johnson and Lonnie Johnson would have recorded something together, That would have been so great!
Check out Lonnie Johnson!
NO body and I mean no body ,can play like Robert Johnson,all fall short of the original king of the delta blues.
Cmme il le dit,Jojo,la musique que j’aime "elle vient de là" the Roots!!
I can’t listen to this version, it sounds so strange compared to the ‘correct’ version, aka the version at the right speed. So does all his music, it’s a shame it was sped up in the first up in the first place.
ITILII, jaht3z … well Clapton admits to it in the "Eric Clapton: Sessions to Robert J." … that he had to practice for a week to even try to do an approximatation, playing-n-singing by himself, of an accoustic cover of just a couple Robert Johnson songs ("I still can’t do it completely right") … And on an accoustic "Terraplane Blues" he performed with Doyle Branhall, with the two both playing and Clapton signing – he didn’t try it by himself, for whatever reason. I’m sure you know all this
"Clapton needs an accompanyist to play what Robert did by himself…"
You can dig Robert Johnson without making a fool of yourself with comments like that. It’s not a freaking contest, and there is no ‘greatest guitarist ever’ .
listen to that guitar work….Clapton needs an accompanyist to play what Robert did by himself…the greatest guitarist, ever
I’m gon’ get down in this connection, oh well, keep on tanglin’ with these wires
And when I mash down on your little starter, then your spark plug will give me fire
Imagine writing these lyrics in the 30s! Robert Johnson got balls.