Radiolab podcast about ROBERT JOHNSON

Post by **nelson8874** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:53 am

Just wanted to share this podcast with you guys, as there are many blues lovers in this forum.
This one is from one of my favourite podcasts of all. Usually it is about science kind of stuff. But this time they did it about ROBERT JOHNSON!! I think you will really like it. They do a very good job, and the producing work is one of the bests.

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab- ... rossroads/

Direct link to the show:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3 ... sroads.mp3

Post by **Silver Forest** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:55 am

Not a strange thing to me associating interests on science and Robert Johnson

Thanks nelson. Always a pleasure to have stuff from one of the great masters of the Blues. For sure the most legendary of them all. I'm gonna give a listen this afternoom. Cheers!

ps: listening now.

Highly recommended.
Nice interviews (new for me)made on Clarksdale and some new info about how John H. Hammond dealt with the news about the recent death of RJ. He play some records at Carnegie Hall in 1938!
And amazingly some serious doubts about the death of Robert Johnson. There's apparently several contemporary men with the same name and there's now serious doubts about if the man who died in Greenwood, Mississippi was indeed the man who made the records... I've read about these doubts before but now I listened to Mack McCormick saying the same thing.

Post by **nelson8874** » Tue May 08, 2012 8:36 am

hope you liked the podcast.

Post by **Silver Forest** » Tue May 08, 2012 8:07 pm

nelson8874 wrote:hope you liked the podcast.

Sure Nelson. It's all about mystery, women, whisky and good music. What else do you need?

Now seriously, as I said, the program brought some new interesting info from the man that is probably the greatest authority concerning Robert Johnson. Apparently he keeps loads of interesting original info about the theme including a third photo from RJ.

Thanks!

Post by **Silver Forest** » Sat May 26, 2012 10:46 pm

An occasional interest on the mystery and the enormous legal battles around Robert Johnson legacy. Here's a good read from 2008 around the alleged 3rd RJ photo that somehow I missed:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... nson200811

I suppose there are a few Robert Johnson fans here so I hope they enjoy the reading.