01 - Robert Johnson
born in 1911 in Hazlehurst Mississippi.
After the death of his wife sixteen starts to wander between the cities of the Mississippi sound became a heavy drinker.
Legend, fueled by Johnson himself, the young bluesman had made a pact with the devil, selling his soul in exchange for the ability to play the guitar like nobody else in the world.
This story has been consolidated in years as a result of several facts: his amazing guitar technique, based on fingerpicking and still considered one of the finest examples of delta blues, evocations generated by his voice and his way of playing, left the contents of his lyrics, which often spoke of ghosts and demons when referring to his pact with the devil himself.
We also brought the stories of several musicians who knew him, and told of how, after his wife died, he returned the following year with an amazing skill and technique.
is very likely that in his wanderings have taken lessons from Son House, another blues legend.
His songs, among all Sweet Home Chicago, are an integral part of music history.
died in 1938 aged only 27 in a room as he played with Sonny Boy Wiiliamson, the bartender says poisoned by the jealous wife.
Despite the myth that has always surrounded only 29 pieces have been carved into a hotel in 1936, representing his entire discography.
Among his legendary recordings, echoed by hundreds of artists around the world today, it is worth recalling, in addition to the aforementioned Sweet Home Chicago:
kindhearted Woman Blues, I Believe I'll Dust My Broom Rambling On My Mind, When You Got a Good Friend, Come On In My Kitchen Take, Terraplane Blues They're Red Hot, Cross Road Blues, Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil), If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day, Hellhound On My Trail, Me And The Devil Blues Traveling Riverside Blues, Love In Vain.
02 - Charlie Patton
born in 1891 in the Dockery Plantation in Mississippi Ruleville, the legendary plantation of 10,000 acres where it will then John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson and Howlin'Wolf.
He began playing at age 19, touring the taverns and the plantations of the south.
In 29 'and 30's records for Paramount.
E 'was a precursor to both technical and human than spectacular, created a way to play and experience music, it became, for better or for worse example for generations of blues, jazz and rock.
often played using the slide technique, so that the yields of the predominant role in the delta blues.
He created the myth of the blues with a life of excess, drinking and smoking so much, he had eight wives, ended several times in prison, his life was a continuous journey of local local living hand to mouth. He was also a showman
: it was not unusual fact that playing the guitar on his knees, or behind the back and at times, turned the guitar and used the back of it as a drum, also played a very strong and was impressive in live performance .
died in 1934 on a plantation near Indianola from heart failure.
03 - Son House
born in 1902 in Riverton on the Mississippi.
He began playing at age 25, one of the top professionals of the Delta Blues style, touring the South in the 20 and 30 until the end of 1942.
He used a bottleneck (as the word to put on a neck bottglia slide your finger to play) and his innovative musical style was characterized by a strong rhythm, marked and repetitive.
His singing style rather reminiscent of chain gangs, groups of prisoners who were chained perform heavy work.
Curiously, during the sixties it was House who spread the legend that Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his incredible musicianship.
Nel'43 leave the music to go to work in the New York Central Railroad.
in 1964 with the Blues Revival is rediscovered and participates in the following year at New York Folk Festival and the American Folk Festival in '67 with Skip James and Bukka White.
In 1970 he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, but in 1974 the disease forced him to retire from the scene again.
died in 1988 due to cancer of the larynx.
04 - Skip James
born in 1902.
sounded a plaintive and mournful blues, his songs were populated by images dark and sad, with a complicated three-finger-picking style, more common in that country or bluegrass musicians in the blues.
In 1931 he recorded 26 tracks for Paramount and one of these Devil Got My Woman inspired Robert Johnson for his Hellhound On My Trail.
He began playing in gospel groups and returned to playing blues and affect only after it was rediscovered in 1964 by a group of researchers of folk music, among whom was Henry Vestin of Canned Heat.
Collected as a huge success at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and returned to record and play full time. Eric Clapton and Cream
affect his song I'm So Glad that enter into their first album.
died of cancer in 1969.
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