Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues

We've been listening to the immortal 'King of the Delta Blues' at the wrong speed, but now we can hear him as he intendedI wouldn't agree with Eric Clapton about much, but he's always been bang on the money when it comes to Robert Johnson. Clapton once described Johnson as, "the most important blues singer that ever lived". The recordings that Johnson made between 1936 and 1937, collected in two volumes entitled King of the Delta Blues Singers, not only mark the apogee of the blues form, they st...

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