The real blues progenitor
5
By 12bar
If you think Robert Johnson invented the recorded blues, you need a little schooling from this wonderful disc. If you can get past the remastered 1928 recording technology, you will realize that this man was seriously talented. He plays a beautiful fingerstyle melody and keeps a bass beat at the same time from one guitar. Throw in a voice that is sweet and sad all at once, and you know that this is what the roots of blues is all about. What you hear comes from one man sitting there playing his guitar and singing as you hear it. There weren't any overdubs in those days! It is good that he enjoyed a revival in his career shortly before his death in the folk and blues revival of the mid-1960s, because he deserved it. I would have given it 10 stars, but iTunes only lets me put in 5.
