![]() That’s my opinion.”īut King himself didn’t think twice about recording his version of “Cross Road Blues” (one of the songs Johnson recorded in San Antonio in 1936) for the 100 Years of Robert Johnson tribute released in March by the Big Head Blues Club, a star-studded project headed by Big Head Todd & The Monsters’ Todd Park Mohr. I think ‘Lonnie’ Johnson was the best blues guitarist in history. “I don’t argue with them, but I don’t agree. “A lot of people think Robert Johnson was the best,” King told me from the back of his touring bus in San Antonio in 2006. King is the rare case of someone with a different view. Out of all the great living bluesmen, however, B.B. Johnson was one of those honored in the very first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1986, and is frequently referred to as “the grandfather of rock ’n’ roll.” And yet the mysterious artist behind “Cross Road Blues” transcends the genre. ![]() ![]() Ask anyone from Clapton’s Cream to Led Zeppelin to the Rolling Stones who the most influential bluesman was, and you always go back to Johnson. Johnson and the EP Sessions for Robert J. He was “the most important blues musician who ever lived,” according to Eric Clapton, who released not one, but two collections of songs by Johnson in 2004: the album Me and Mr. Yet he’s widely regarded as the greatest bluesman of all time. ![]()
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