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batgirl

Nov 13, 2019

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m_connors

Nov 13, 2019

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Where is this guy from? (Sounds American?) The state of Arkansas is a foreign country, even back in 1951?

batgirl

Nov 13, 2019

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The guy with the globe is Lee Hayes. He was from Arkansas. The woman is Ronnie Gilbert. On guitar is Fred Hellerman while Pete Seeger plays the banjo.

batgirl

Nov 13, 2019

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e1906 wrote:

Batgirl! I started on Chess.com YEARS ago and left. Good to see you still on here!

Thanks Eddie.

m_connors

Nov 13, 2019

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batgirl wrote:

The guy with the globe is Lee Hayes. He was from Arkansas. The woman is Ronnie Gilbert. On guitar is Fred Hellerman while Pete Seeger plays the banjo.

Ok, I am confused . . . the guy lives(ed) in Arkansas and calls it a foreign country? I have heard rumblings about the American education system, but always thought they were exaggerated!

batgirl

Nov 13, 2019

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I guess Arkansas is situated in a country foreign to someone. I'm not 100% sure of some details but this group was blacklisted for suspected communist sympathies. After that the couldn't get work in the U.S. I know Pete Seeger made some tv productions in England. I'm not sure about the Weavers as a group.

RussBell

Nov 13, 2019

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The blues is generally credited as the seminal precursor to rock-n-roll. The most famous of the early blue artists, who has inspired probably more rock-n-roll songs, is Robert Johnson....

Here a few samples of Robert Johnson's iconic recordings and some of their famous popular and rock-n-roll covers...

"Crossroads" - Robert Johnson, 1936....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A

"Crossroads" by Cream, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar and vocal, 1968....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgX4e2Z9Qk

"Love In Vain" - Robert Johnson, 1937...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T3h0b93Rg

"Love In Vain" - Rolling Stones, from "Let It Bleed" album. 1969...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyrCt9UVYnk

"Love In Vain", Rolling Stones, in studio...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvBUjJrmC4

"Walkin Blues" Robert Johnson, 1936...