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A teaching moment
A teaching moment
One time after I played Robert Johnson’s recording of “Cross Road Blues,” a student in the front row said “You should’ve played Cream.” I smiled and asked, “Where do you think they got it?”
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A teaching moment
Mack McCormick’s Robert Johnsons
Mack McCormick’s Robert Johnsons
Biography of a Phantom, an edited version of Mack McCormick’s never-finished biography of Robert Johnson, is now in print.
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Mack McCormick’s Robert Johnsons
Blue canard
Blue canard
Sorry, Open Culture, there’s no evidence that Robert Johnson’s recordings were intentionally speeded up.
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·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Blue canard
Listening to Robert Johnson
Listening to Robert Johnson
"The impossibility of reverse-engineering the circumstances of recording puts me in mind of the title of David Shapiro’s poem 'After a Lost Original': we have no reference point for knowing what Johnson sounded like when recording other than his recordings."
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·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Listening to Robert Johnson