Robert Johnson: The Centennial Celebration (Podcast)

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Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:26 pm

Hi all, here is a link to a podcast that includes a documentary about Robert Johnson to mark his 100th birthday.

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Here's the pitch:

Blues guitarist Robert Johnson died in 1938 when he was just 27 years old. He recorded only twenty-nine songs during his lifetime and achieved only modest success in record sales and fame. While he influenced other blues musicians like Muddy Waters and Elmore James, it was thirty years after his death when his music would make its most profound impact. Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Z.Z. Top, Bonnie Rait, Led Zeppelin and countless other rock and roll musicians owe a huge debt to Robert Johnson.

Robert Johnson: The Centennial Celebration explores the life of this mysterious figure through interviews with writers Peter Guaralnick and Scott Baretta, musicians Corey Harris and Warren Haynes and Johnson’s grandson, Stephen Johnson. There are also several classic Robert Johnson recordings on the program.
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The podcast is a local radio folk music show I follow regularly, and the actual Johnson material starts at a bit after the 33 minute mark and lasts an hour.
You can either click and play this link or right-click and save it to your hard drive.

http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20110526.08.59-11.01.mp3

Lots of juicy tidbits about Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil !

By the way, there's about 6 months of podcasts of this 2 hour weekly folk radio show at http://www.ckutfolk.com/html/listen.html ... I'm hooked.

Pierre