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Deep Blues
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Most people are familiar with Eric Clapton and Cream. For example they had this hit:
Fewer people are familiar with what came first:
the cream----you hear the name and you think eric clapton----rock and roll---but you would be wrong----eric is one of the best blues players alive---crossroads--cant find my way home--blues power--rollin and tumblin---layla---why does love have to be so sad-----white room and many many others------------------BLUES ARE THE FOUNDATION-
One of the earliest lesser known blues greats is Blind Willie Johnson. An influence on artists as diverse as Nick Cave and Lou Reed, Johnson was a preacher who played gospel and blues in the 1920s. One of the first bottleneck players, some legends say he used a knife and laid it across the strings. It doesn't get much deeper than Blind Willie Johnson:
Another great and lesser known Mississippi bluesman was Bukka White. He first recorded in 1930 but was largely unknown until rediscovered by John Fahey in the 1960s. He served time in Parchman prison and is best known for the classic Shake 'em On Down.
We all know the origin of blues was in the southern U.S.. The cotton fields, the delta, It was the release for suffering and servitude.
Gospel praised god, the promise of a better afterlife. Blues on the other hand came via the devil. It was the reflection of the here and now.
This is one of the earliest, and still one of the greatest blues classics ever recorded dealing with that universal theme of suffering, the relationship.