THE GREATIST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME

25."COME IN MY KITCHEN"-ROBERT JOHNSON

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ANY KIND OF HANDLE ON WHAT REAL
BLACK DELTA BLUES MAKES YOU FEEL WITHOUT HEARING THE
FEW RECORDINGS ROBERT JOHNSON MADE IN HIS VERY SHORT
LIFETIME.
WHILE ELVIS TOOK THE SOUND OF BLACK MUSIC AND EMULATED
A HYBRID SOUND THAT WAS TO BECOME THE BREAKTHROUGH OF
ROCK N' ROLL FOR WHITES-JOHNSONS AUDIENCE IN AN EARLIER
TIME WAS ALLWAYS BLACK.HE MADE NO CONCESSIONS WHATSO-
EVER.HE TRAVELED AND PLAYED ALL OVER THE DELTA AND OTHER
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY LEARNING ALL HE COULD FROM ALL THE
GREAT BLACK BLUESMEN OF HIS TIME.
SOME HOW AT A VERY YOUNG AGE JOHNSON WAS ABLE TO
FIND HIS OWN UNIQUE STYLE USING ALL THE LICKS,RIFF'S AND
PICKING STYLES HE HAD LEARNED IN ALL HIS TRAVELS.HE WROTE
AND RE-WROTE MANY SONGS OF WHICH "COME IN MY KITCHEN"
WAS ONE OF ONLY ABOUT 15 HE RECORDED IN TWO SESSIONS
DONE IN TEXAS OVER ABOUT 3 DAY'S.
THERE IS BIG DRIVING FORCE BEHIND AND AN EAR FOR SONG-
CRAFT IN JOHNSONS WORK THAT SEEMS TO LINK IT MORE DIRECTLY
TO ROCK N' ROLL.WAS ROBERT JOHNSON THE FIRST ROCKER?
HE CERTAINLY WAS EARLIEST REPRESENTATIVE OF AN EXCITING
FORM OF MUSIC THAT WOULD SHAKE THE WORLDAND CHANGE THE
MUSICAL LANDSCAPE FOREVER.


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