Blind Lemon Jefferson: he became a recording star, and his success transported him far away from singing on the street corners in Texas. ibid.
Despite growing tension between them, Lead Belly performed with Lomax at Harvard University and literary conferences. ibid.
In his short lifetime Robert Johnson recorded twenty-nine songs. ibid.
Muddy Waters ... was suspicious of this white man and his recording equipment. ibid.
Alan Lomax re-returned to the Blues all his life. ibid.
King Biscuit Time was sponsored by a local flour manufacturer. ibid.
It’s the sound of the twentieth century. A music created by the poorest people in the richest nation on Earth: the Blues. Blues America II: Bright Lights Bright City
The meaning of the Blues kept on changing. ibid.
In 1948 Muddy Waters released I Can’t Be Satisfied. ibid.
This harder slicker urban blues. ibid.
Mississippi’ migrant John Lee Hooker took his primitive modern sound to the top of the black R & B charts. ibid.
These elderly often penniless bluesmen ... were brought north and improbably given a new lease of life. ibid.
Robert Johnson ... was the ultimate Blues mystery. ibid.
The Rolling Stones were the first pop stars to insist that they were playing the Blues. ibid.
B B King – his urban uptown Blues ... refined kind of Blues. ibid.
Blues Rock became Hard Rock. Hard Rock became Heavy Metal. ibid.
A new wave of musicians and audiences ... The Healer made 72-year-old John Lee Hooker into a global megastar. ibid.
I traded it. No, for a microphone. The Blues Brothers 1980 starring John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd & Steve Cropper & Donald Duck Dunn & Murphy Dunne & Willie Hall & Matt Murphy & Carrie Fisher & Ray Charles & John Candy & Aretha Franklin & Twiggy & James Brown & Henry Gibson et al, director John Landis, Elwood to Jake
It is the new blues-mobile or what? ibid.
The county took a tax assessment of this property last month: they want $5,000. ibid. Penguin
Jake, you get wise. You get to church. ibid. friend in basement
The Band. The Band. The Band! ibid. Jake’s epiphany
We’re on a mission from God. ibid. Elwood to Jake
I’m gonna catch that sucker. If it’s the last thing I ever do. ibid. rozzer
Hotel For Men Only Transients Welcome. ibid.
Plymouth Hotel For Men Only. ibid. street sign
How much for the little girl? The women – how much for the women? Your women, I want to buy your women. The little girl. ibid. Jake to complainer
Decent law-abiding white folk. Just like you. ibid. Nazi on bridge with magaphone
Elwood: Got any white bread? I’ll have some toasted white bread please. No, maan, dry.
Jake: Got any friend chicken? Bring me four fried chickens and a coke. ibid.
We got both kinds. We got Country and Western. ibid. lady behind bar of Bob’s Country Bunker
It’s a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas. Half a pack of cigarettes. It’s dark. And we’re wearing sun glasses. ibid. Elwood to Jake
It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record. Hugh Laurie
If was after Johnson made his alleged pact with Satan that he became king of the Delta Blues. Welcome to Truth: Satanic New World Order Illuminati Conspiracy, Youtube
Miss Simone, you are idolized, even loved, by millions now. But what happened, Miss Simone? What Happened Miss Simone? 2015, Maya Angelou, 2015
‘I haven’t seen you for many years since 1968.’ ibid. Simone at jazz festival
‘Everything fell apart.’ ibid. daughter
It’s 40 years since this LP called Cold Effects from Rodriguez was released. Searching for Sugarman ***** 2012
He had committed suicide – he set himself alight on stage and burnt to death in front of the audience … the most grotesque suicide in rock history. ibid.
Why didn’t he make it? ibid.
He’s alive and kicking and living in Detroit. ibid.
In South Africa you are bigger than Elvis Presley. ibid. investigator
Emerson, I gotta go on tour. ibid. Rodriguez
South Africa made me feel like more than a prince. ibid.
Her sound was unique, but it was not just her voice that made her remarkable. Janis Joplin’s rise to preeminence as the first lady of rock n roll broke the mould of how female singers should look, act and speak. Reputations s7e5: Janis Joplin: Southern Discomfort, BBC 2000
Her premature death at the age of 27 and the legend surrounding her short wild life have obscured Joplin’s personal struggles to come to terms with her past and to claim a place in the exclusive men’s club of rock. ibid.
The female icon of ’60s counter-culture. ibid.
Janis was soon injecting speed. ibid.
Monterey: This was the platform Janis had been waiting for. ibid.
They were living the rock-n-roll life on the road, gigging, travelling and giving interviews. Some of the band – Janis among them – had begun using heroin. ibid.
She was becoming increasingly dependable on alcohol and heroin. ibid.
Robert Johnson is considered one of the greatest blues artists of all time. Devil at the Crossroads, Netflix 2019, fan
There’s something almost supernatural about Robert. ibid.
A template for what became rock-n-roll. ibid.
He came with mystery attached. ibid.
The legend is he went to the crossroads; he met the devil there; he sold his sold and then he became the greatest guitar player in the world. ibid.
Very little known about the life of Robert Johnson. ibid.
He died so young at the age of twenty-seven. ibid.