Faults Of Religion
...the blues part. This may leave some people confused about how every thing in popular music today got started. It started with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Berry, and their Rock-n-Roll right? Wrong, popular music started with the blues, now because so many people leave that rather large fact out of the equation, titles seem to get tossed around, and the crown lands on a slicked back white kids head, rather then that of its rightful owner. There is only one king in music, that’s the King of the Delta.
In my opinion everything started with one man, and one style of music. It’s in my most professional opinion that in some way everything in music we enjoy today came from Robert Johnson or is some how linked to the Delta Blues.
The most influential musician was a black man who’s dead at 27 and had composed only 29 songs, with only two pictures, two marriage certificates, and one death certificate, left at his departure. Robert Johnson at 26/27 year old who between the years of 1937-1939 completely changed music forever. Robert Johnson set a new foundation of blues, for millions of artists from anywhere to rock-n-roll, country, and even rap to build off of. Despite the concrete evidence which lies in countless songs recorded over the last 70 somethin’ years, there are still those who began the story of music with rock-n-roll. What people don’t seem to understand is that by all definition Robert Johnson is as rock-n-roll as it gets. His short lived life is scandals, sex, and drugs, like all good musicians. Johnson’s music sometimes fast and his lyrics are that of love and sex. Robert Johnson, like other great musicians, namely Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, composed music of the highest most impressive caliber. Coming strait from the most reliable blues expert today, Eric Clapton “To completely copy it would be a life’s for any musician.”- Eric...
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