Eric Clapton CROSSROADS Guitar Solos + NEW Robert Johnson Photograph

This is a demo cover of the two iconic Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Solos from Cream's live recording at the Fillmore in March 1968.

Owing to the compicated nature of these solos which, between them, include 56 phrases, lessons for this particular work (in preparation, ready shortly) will be available only on Patreon:

CROSSROADS SOLOS LESSONS
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Speaking of Robert Johnson, guitar legend, Eric Clapton, once said: “At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.”

And in the words of Bob Dylan: “When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from

Johnson’s first recordings were made between November 23rd-25th, 1936 at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. Room 414 had been reserved by Brunswick Records for the occasion, who turned the space into a temporary studio. The sessions were recorded by Don Law. Johnson played 16 songs

After this initial effort, Robert Johnson was recorded just once more. This time, the location was Warner Brothers’ Vitagraph building in Dallas, Texas. The dates were June 19th and 20th, 1937, and the session was managed once again by Don Law.

Between those two sessions, Robert Johnson created the entire recorded body of his work, 29 songs in total. (Buy CDs and vinyle here: https://amzn.to/2WQ22HO)

On August 16th, 1938, Johnson met his end. While working for a few weeks at a country dance near Greenwood, Mississippi, he had been conducting an affair with a woman named Beatrice Davis. Her husband wanted to teach Johnson a lesson by making him sick, and so spiked his whisky with dissolved moth balls. But after falling ill the next evening, Johnson’s condition worsened. Davis had not known that Johnson had been diagnosed as having an ulcer.

The poison had a terrible effect. Johnson reacted badly. He began vomiting violently, was in severe pain, and ultimately suffered a haemhorage in his oesophagus, which eventually led to his death.

At this sad point in the story, Robert Johnson simply disappeared from the record, almost totally forgotten, until a Mississippi musicologist called Gayle Dean Wardlow started researching the great man’s life.

Eric Clapton said that he heard in Johnson’s music, “the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice".

And it was Eric Clapton, with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in Cream, who recorded what is almost certainly the most famous and widely praised song of Johnson’s.

Originally titled ‘Cross Road Blues’, it was recorded by Cream simply as ‘Crossroads’.

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