particular way that he did if you go to the rock and roll hall of fame you'll see a whole section on the music of robert johnson and the legend was that robert johnson played the guitar so welland so distinctively because he had gone down to the crossroads and he had made a deal with the devil
I started playing at 17 years old and I had never heard of another guitar player that made an album that started that late, with one exception. That was Robert Johnson . And he had to sell his soul at the crossroads to do that.
bazy and Sydney bash and to represent the southern folk Blues big bill bruny from a plantation in Arkansas his original Choice Robert Johnson had just died and a near blind harmonica player Sunny Terry from Georgia in the wake of the concert success he then brought many of these performers downtown to headline at a cafe Society now proudly billing
Yellow, I guess. Yellow. He's never heard of Robert Johnson .
And this was in collaboration with the pop singer Lady Gaga and her foundation, Born This Way Foundation. And what we did with funding from the Robert Johnson Foundation, we went across the states, and we looked at the state of emotional affairs. So I asked you to think about your feelings first.
what of it is actually just noise. And somehow I got to thinking about how Jesus and Robert Johnson probably were in the exact same position when they were about to make these big decisions in their life like, I need to get born, or, I need to sell my soul to the devil
johnson raise your hand one anybody else two okay so the legend goes y'all look mad young mad young like robba who we've been again in the history right now robert johnson is uh one of the progenitors of modern blues right i shouldn't even say modern blues
So right away we were building a case study for what Yours Truly could be and what the benefits for you a band would be for doing Yours Truly. To have them take a trip to Clarksdale Mississippi where BB King was born and Robert Johnson was born.
But yeah, I mean, it's kind of what our music of G. Love and Special Sauce is anyhow. The kind of blueprint for it was I kind of learned a lot of Delta blues, people like Robert Johnson and Bukka White, Bob Dylan, too, and John Hammond.
in Woodstock allowed Dylan to fully express for the very first time the full diversity of his influences. In his cryptic lyrics, we can hear his mental blender at work as he mixes together scraps of Blake, Fellini, Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson . Songs are modernist and pre modern, avant garde and country western.
Dan the Automator and I'm like yeah. And so he told me, he's like, "I'm a big Miles fan." He named his son Miles and he's like, "I love what you guys did with that and with Robert Johnson " we did a beer with and he was a big fan of that and he's like, "Let's do something." So, as we walked into that he wasn't a huge beer geek he was more of a foodie and so he's