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The Soul-Baring Sound of Blues Master Robert Johnson
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
September 30, 1990| Author:
Mike Joyce
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To me Robert Johnson's influence-he was like a comet or a meteor
that came along and, BOOM, suddenly he raised the ante, suddenly you
just had to aim that much higher.
-Keith Richards
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It came as something of a shock to me that there could be
anything that powerful.
-Eric Clapton
Perhaps the only thing that can be said with certainty about
Robert Johnson's brief life is that its impact is incalculable. For
Keith Richards and Eric Clapton, for the...
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