who was the guitarist that sold his soul to the devil?
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Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in Rosedale, Mississippi Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in Rosedale, Mississippi. Last month, while I was driving down the Mississippi River on a magazine assignment, I had a curious experience in Rosedale, Mississippi.
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- Jesse Guitar Taylor has been a rambunctious presence in Texas music for close to 40 years now. A native of Lubbock, he's probably most famous as the original guitarist in the Joe Ely Band — the man who made it his job to splash rock 'n' roll paints over the band's cool country canvas.
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- Three Albert King Blues Licks Every Guitarist Should Know. Electric blues guitarist Albert King was a giant among bluesmen (literally—he stood roughly six and a half feet tall). A lefty playing a 1958 Gibson Flying V, King scored hits with “I’m a Lonely Man” in 1959 and “Don’t Throw Your Love on Me So Strong” in 1961 before moving to Stax in 1966.
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The Ry Cooder/Steve Vai Crossroads Guitar Duel The Ry Cooder/Steve Vai Crossroads Guitar Duel. A wonderful 1986 Walter Hill film, Crossroads explores the relationship between a Julliard-trained college boy who loves the blues (Lightnin’ Boy, played by Ralph Macchio) and Willie Brown (played by Joe Seneca, who shared a birthday with yours truly).
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Cliff Burton Clifford Lee Cliff Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician, best known as the second bass guitarist for the American thrash metal band Metallica from December 1982 until his death in September 1986.
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Erik Braunn, 52, Iron Butterfly Guitarist Erik Braunn, 52, Iron Butterfly Guitarist. Erik Braunn, the Iron Butterfly guitarist who played one of rock's most recognizable riffs in the 17-minute anthem ''In-a-Gadda-da-Vida,'' died here on Friday. He was 52.
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Ray Charles, Bluesy Essence of Soul, Is Dead at 73 Ray Charles, Bluesy Essence of Soul, Is Dead at 73. ay Charles, the piano man with the bluesy voice who reshaped American music for a half-century, bringing the essence of soul to country, jazz, rock, standards and every other style of music he touched, died yesterday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 73.
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Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in Rosedale, Mississippi Interestingly, there are other contenders in the myth of Robert Johnson’s devil-purchased soul — and the crossroads of US 61 and US 49 in Clarksdale is where most blues tourists pay their respects (the newest Romantics album is called “61/49” for this reason).
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- Blind rocker Healey dies aged 41. Jeff Healey was renowned for his method of playing the guitar. Blind Canadian rock musician Jeff Healey has died in a Toronto hospital aged 41 after a lifelong battle against cancer, his publicist has said. Healey, famed for playing his electric guitar flat on his lap, lost his sight at the age of one after contracting cancer of the retina.
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Robert Plant In 1968, guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after being turned down by his first choice, Terry Reid, who referred him to a show at a teacher training college in Birmingham (where Plant was singing in a band named Obs-Tweedle).
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- Lead Belly's budding music career hit a slight hitch in 1915, when the folk guitarist was arrested for punching a dude in the face, pulling a gun in the middle of a barroom brawl, then pummeling someone with it.
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Johnnie Ray This article is about the singer. For the other people with similar names, see Johnny Ray. John Alvin Johnnie Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality.
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Biography British rock musician who, as lead singer for the Rolling Stones, co-wrote such songs as (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965) and Sympathy for the Devil (1968) with Keith Richards.
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Led Zeppelin In 1966, London-based session guitarist Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band the Yardbirds to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Page soon switched from bass to lead guitar, creating a dual lead guitar line-up with Jeff Beck.
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Kurt Cobain's Guitar From Final Nirvana Tour Going to Auction A black-and-white Fender Stratocaster guitar used by Kurt Cobain for the end-of-concert, instrument-destroying jams during Nirvana's final tour – specifically at the band's February 16th, 1994 gig in Rennes, France – has hit the auction block.
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Viral Video of the Day: Michael Winslow covers Led Zeppelin using a 'Whole Lotta' vocal sound effects On a Norwegian talk show recently, he joined an acoustic guitarist to add percussion, vocals and an incredible guitar solo on this cover of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love. As featured on Wired and Reddit, he manages to sound just like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham -- all at once.
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How the Hendrix of the keyboard was trolled to death by his own fans: Keith Emerson's widow claims flamboyant showman was a 'sensitive soul' killed himself after taking cruel jibes to heart How the Hendrix of the keyboard was trolled to death by his own fans: Keith Emerson's widow claims flamboyant showman was a 'sensitive soul' killed himself after taking cruel jibes to heart. Keith Emerson died aged 71 at his home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. Police said he died from self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Emerson set up the band in 1970 with guitarist Lake and drummer Palmer. He had been planning to retire after a string of concerts in Japan.
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Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant recounts the creation of âStairway to Heavenâ in copyright trial Plant's story of how the song came about is an important element to the defense he and Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page are mounting against accusations they stole the song's famous opening guitar chords from a song by Spirit, an L.A. band that gained some notoriety in the late 1960s.
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Louis Satterfield Louis Edward Satterfield (April 3, 1937, Shaw, Mississippi, United States – September 27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois), also known with the stage names of Lui-Lui and Sat, was an American bass and trombone player, primarily noted as a session musician and for his tours as a sideman with a large number of highly visible and commercially successful blues ...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? They pick up Tommy Johnson, a young black man. Tommy claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play guitar. In need of money, the four stop at a radio broadcast tower where they record a song as The Soggy Bottom Boys. That night, the trio part ways with Tommy after their car is discovered by the police.
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100 Greatest Guitarists Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be: He manipulated the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio and the stage. On songs like Machine Gun or Voodoo Chile, his instrument is like a divining rod of the turbulent Sixties – you can hear the riots in the streets and napalm bombs dropping in his Star-Spangled Banner..
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- 31 Comments. rpm - 26-01-2013, 11:59 AM. One of the reasons Eskom is applying for an electricity hike is because the average annual salary of one of its employees is expected to be R820,000 in 2017 and 2018, according to a report on Saturday.n the documents Eskom claimed that in the current book year, the average salary per worker is R633,000 annually. According to the documents, the reason for the high salaries was because new power stations needed more employees, and there was need to get more skilled workers and to keep them.
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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Silver Tongued Devil and I is the second album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1971 on Monument Records. In the spoken word intro to The Pilgrim, Chapter 33, Kristofferson says he wrote the song about various celebrities.
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- Faust Arp by Radiohead Songfacts. 1  The Faust in the song's title is probably the Faust in German legend who made a pact with the devil. 2  The Faust legend originated from Johann Faust (c1480-1540) of Germany, a wandering astrologist, scholar and magician who slighted Jesus' miracles and bragged that he could do the same.
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Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant recounts the creation of âStairway to Heavenâ in copyright trial Robert Plant, one of the most celebrated singers in rock music history, took the stand Tuesday in the copyright trial over his band Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, recounting for the jury how the iconic song was created.
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- This guitar was given to Jimmy by Jeff Beck in 1966 as a gift shortly after Page recommended Beck to replace Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds, instead of himself – which was Clapton’s initial idea. Jimmy did eventually join the Yardbirds and played alongside Beck as a rhythm guitarist/bassist.age usually had this guitar tuned to DADGAD, and played “Kashmir” on it. It was sometimes also used for “Dazed and Confused” – when Jimmy played with a violin bow, “Moby Dick”, and “Over the Hills and Far Away”.