Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (George L. Tirebiter) Newsgroups: net.music.gdead Subject: Re: Walking Blues/Roots Message-ID: <475@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 09:18:03 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.475 Posted: Thu Jun 27 09:18:03 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:01:21 EDT References: <758@columbia.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (George L. Tirebiter) Distribution: net Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 26 Summary: In article <758@columbia.UUCP> cower@columbia.UUCP (Rich Cower) writes: >The following is a little background info on one of the bands recent covers >"Walking Blues"... > >"Robert Johnson is little more than a name on aging index cards..." > >"Walking Blues" has been covered by a number of artists. Ones that immediately >come to mind are Bonnie Raitt, Jorma Kaukonen, and The Paul Butterfield Blues >Band. Another of Johnson's works that you might recognise as having been >popularized by a contemporary group of the late 60's was "Crossroads Blues". Several other recent covers of Robert Johnson songs (comparatively recent, anyway... after all, he died in 1938): "Ramblin' On My Mind" - John Mayall/Eric Clapton (EC's first vocal) "Four Until Late" - Cream (lead vocal: EC again) "Steady Rollin' Man" - Eric Clapton ... and need I remind you who sang Cream's "Crossroads"? "Stop Breakin' Down" - Rolling Stones "Kind Hearted Woman" - George Thorogood George Tirebiter (your only logical choice) Camden N-200-R