Posts Tagged ‘Robert Johnson’

Today’s episode sounds like a Good Bye just to say hello again in two weeks. Indeed the show won’t be hosted anymore from the Wueste Welle studio in Germany. It won’t change that much as Wueste Welle will still air the show at the same time. So for you listener, the story continues… Dwight Yoakam [...]

2012 should be the last year for humanity. If we should go to Hell, we choose the nuclear option with “Uranium Rock”. Johnny Horton, Robert Johnson and Rufus Thomas are standing out of the grave. You will see Tiger Men. There will be Juke Joint Pimps with nuclear slide guitars. You will hear Robert Johnson [...]

Recently our colleagues of Radio Diaries from the US National Public Radio (NPR) featured a story about a particular day in the music history. On November 23, 1936 on each side of the Atlantic, two men recorded music that would have an effect on the music destiny. Robert Johnson recorded pieces that would became cornerstones [...]

Live celebration with Steffan Rock and BB Browzee of the centennial of Robert Johnson, the archetypical bluesman who recorded 29 songs in 1936-1937 by taking the blues from the cottonfields to the Purgatory and created the myth of the crossroads before his tragic death the following year.

Steve Earle is waitin’ on the Sky, Calvin Russell is gone to Heaven although he didn’t want to, John Mellencamp is singing with the Devil behind him in the room where Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to that Devil, recorded decades before. So many concerns about God and the the Devil and still the [...]

Close your eyes, listen to those texan artists and you’ll feel like cruising on the Lone Star State dusty roads with Steve Earle, Dale Watson, Junior Brown, Robert Johnson, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Scott H Biram and more !

“The Blues had a baby and they named it Rock’n’Roll” said Muddy Waters. How a catfish turns into a rollin’ stone… from Muddy Waters to Jimi Hendrix

live session in the radio studio

with the HONKY TONK LIVE Godfathers & Godmothers

The Blues originate in the mysterious Delta region and it still sounds there today