Best Ever Albums

Re: User Pick (#32): King of the Delta Blues Singers [Norman]

Norman Bates — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 05:10:43 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/18/2014 09:10

"I gotta keep moving, I gotta keep moving"

pff this artist.

Re: User Pick (#32): King of the Delta Blues Singers [Norman]

Mercury — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:38:42 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 04/17/2014 23:38

It's downright fabulous, amazing, life-changing, sexy, awe-inspiring, lovely, intimate, heartbreaking, frightening - just god damn amazing! Please please please if you haven't heard this album or if you have only once and "didn't get it", give it a listen or another chance. It's a cliche pick for favorite blues album, but I'll say this is probably my favorite blues album. It's all those things I said before and also by listening to this it really can be (was for me) very eye-opening in terms of where a lot of the styles, guitar licks and riffs, lyrics, etc come from. Like listening to this can help connect a lot of dots in terms of where a lot of music sprang from.

He wasn't the only great delta blues musician, but I rank him as the best. This album is Just ... Basicaly, I love it so so much.

Re: User Pick (#32): King of the Delta Blues Singers [Norman]

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:00:56 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/17/2014 20:00

meccalecca wrote:

sometimes a deal with the devil benefits all of humanity.

Either that or our grandparents were right about rock and roll being evil.

Or both, I guess.

Re: User Pick (#32): King of the Delta Blues Singers [Norman]

Romanelli — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:45:55 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 04/17/2014 19:45

This is exceptional stuff, and you really can't go wrong with any Johnson compilation. Actually better than the big box set, which includes absolutely everything...this just takes the really great stuff and puts it on one disc. I love every song on this set. Maybe the most important music of the 20th century.

Re: User Pick (#32): King of the Delta Blues Singers [Norman]

meccalecca — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:43:19 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 04/17/2014 19:43

sometimes a deal with the devil benefits all of humanity.

User Pick (#32): King of the Delta Blues Singers [Norman]

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:31:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/17/2014 19:31

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King of the Delta Blues Singers by Robert Johnson

Chart: Normlore by Norman Bates
Rank on User's Chart: 2
Year: 1961
Rank on BEA Overall: 502
Average Rating: 82/100
Summary Info: A compilation of recordings from Robert Johnson, a Delta blues singer who is cited by many early rock musicians as an important influence. The sessions that make up this collection took place in 1936 and 1937.

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