ROBERT JOHNSON el "Rey del Blues del Delta" (otros también le titulan el "Abuelo del Rock N Roll"). Sus grabaciones de 1936 a 1937 muestran un extraordinario (algunos dicen "sobrenatural) talento para cantar, tocar la guitarra y componer canciones. Solo grabó 29 canciones y influenció a una larguísima game de músicos, entre ellos: Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin Wolf, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Brian Jones, Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds, Keith Richards, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, The Rolling Stones, Paul Butterfield, Queen, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Band, Neil Young, Jimmy Page, Warren Zevon, Jeff Beck, Nick Cave y Eric Clapton ...para solo decir algunos.
En adelante el maestro Robert Johnson cantando "Kind Hearted Women Blues" y más abajo algunos de sus muchos "alumnos" versionando la misma canción.
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
- Muddy Waters
“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.”
― Eric Clapton
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