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In Memory of Robert Johnson

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Who is this Paul Williams?

This is not the Paul Williams the link shows as doing this album nor is it the Paul Williams of Bluegrass fame.

This Paul Williams knows Robert Johnson inside out. He brings more blues and passion to the treatment of this material than any of the White bread treatments by Eric Clapton or Peter Green. One can almost hear that old time Delta sound in this album by someone who knows the blues and has lived it. If one can't get passed the scratchy sounds of the original Robert Johnson, this album is a good place to start. If you can get passed that, get the original, and then listen to the guys who taught Johnson his licks, such as Lonnie Johnson, Scrapper Blackwell, Blind Blake, and Charlie Patton.

I found this CD about 5 years ago in a dust bin of a big store retailer...evidently nobody know what they had...

Even though I am heavy into the blues...I bought it for $6.00 not knowing who Paul Williams was...

Wow...blew my mind...

I have the complete Robert Johnson collection, and many of the other artists that have recorded his stuff...I don't think any other artist comes anywhere this close to a "modernized" version of Johnson's music...

The nuaunce, instrumentation, fill work, style...perfect...

I have about 3-400 blues CD's in my collection and we always have a few that we play regularly...this CD gets played a few times every month...

Never get tired of it...

If you like blues in it's original form...as opposed to a "rock-n-roll" version...you're gonna love this...