The Blues and what followed, normally the what followed part is all too often not accompanied and by the blues part. This may leave some people confused about how every thing in popular music today got started. It started with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Berry, and their Rock-n-Roll right? Wrong, popular music started with the blues, now because so many people leave that rather large fact out of the equation, titles seem to get tossed around, and the crown lands on a slicked back white kids head, rather then that of its rightful owner. There is only one king in music, that’s the King of the Delta.
In my opinion everything started with one man, and one style of music. It’s in my most professional opinion that in some way everything in music we enjoy today came from Robert Johnson or is some how linked to the Delta Blues.
The most influential musician was a black man who’s dead at 27 and had composed only 29 songs, with only two pictures, two marriage......
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