![]() For my taste it was overproduced, a bit lame, the same I thought about his recent collaboration with B.B. Then the first audio examples came out, a few snippets of EC playing most tunes electric. Considering the Robert Johnson tunes from the Bluesbreakers over Cream to Unplugged and his recent acoustic recording of Ramblin’ I expected something between From the Cradle (10 years ago) and Unplugged – just EC and his guitar. ![]() When the first rumors about EC playing an entire album with only songs from one of his biggest influences came out, I thought that will be a great album. – Robert Santelli, A Century Of The Blues No wonder people thought he made a deal with the devil.” His long fingers reached for notes other guitarists can only dream of, while his penchant for slide guitar and walking bass riffs gave his style a remarkably rich language of notes, tones and sounds. Listening to Johnson you often swear two guitarists are playing, not one. The size of his hands may have had something to do with the way he played. ![]() “No one, not back then, nor today, has been able to fully reproduce Johnson’s gift to phrase guitar notes and chords so that they answered oh-so-artfully the lyrics that he sang.
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