The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and countless others – mostly young white Brits – were hip to the black music of the South while American whites were still listening to Bobby Vinton and complaining about what Ray Charles had done to poison their kids. But what chops he built, and what songs he wrote. In all likelihood, Johnson just went off for a few months and found a woman to feed him and woodshedded and wrote and built his chops. The stories about Johnson making a deal with the devil to go from being a second-rate player to a genius are probably just that, stories. But Charley Patton, Blind Blake, Son House, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and numerous others created the template that Johnson built his style upon. Robert Johnson didn’t invent the blues, though many people almost seem to think he did.
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