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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: For Blues/Jazz. To modern blues listeners, none of what he made sounds particularly innovative, but that's because he ''invented'' most of those conventions in the first place.
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** For Blues/Jazz. To modern blues listeners, none of what he made sounds particularly innovative, but that's because he ''invented'' most of those conventions in the firstplace.place.
** His guitar playing doesn't sound that impressive these days. Many are used to modern fingerstyle guitarists sounding like 2 guitars playing simultaneously in far more complex ways that Robert's version of simultaneous rhythm and lead playing sounds really simple and primative.
** For Blues/Jazz. To modern blues listeners, none of what he made sounds particularly innovative, but that's because he ''invented'' most of those conventions in the first
** His guitar playing doesn't sound that impressive these days. Many are used to modern fingerstyle guitarists sounding like 2 guitars playing simultaneously in far more complex ways that Robert's version of simultaneous rhythm and lead playing sounds really simple and primative.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: For Blues/Jazz. To modern blues listeners, none of what he made sounds particularly innovative, but that's because he ''invented'' most of those conventions in the first place.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: For Blues/Jazz. To modern blues listeners, none of what he made sounds particularly innovative, but that's because he ''invented'' most of those conventions in the first place.
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** This has even happened in the blues genre, as "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" became more famous via Elmore James' "Dust My Broom".
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“Other” not needed, RJ was not a rock band.
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* CoveredUp: He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* CoveredUp: He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* VindicatedByHistory: Johnson had little success in his lifetime; he performed mostly on street corners and in bars and only made a handful of recordings. Today, he's considered to be one of the greatest blues musicians. Certainly the idea of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7x4ZS7ZZWc the President of the United States singing one of Johnson's songs]] would have sounded like a fairytale during his lifetime.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Johnson had little success in his lifetime; he performed mostly on street corners and in bars and only made a handful of recordings. Today, he's considered to be one of the greatest blues musicians.musicians to have ever learned. Certainly the idea of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7x4ZS7ZZWc the President of the United States singing one of Johnson's songs]] would have sounded like a fairytale during his lifetime.
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* CoveredUp: He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/TheRollingStones ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* CoveredUp: He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/TheRollingStones Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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-->''Well, the train come in the station
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Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome
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* TearJerker: "Love in Vain"
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* TearJerker: The BreakupSong "Love in Vain"Vain", in which Johnson bids a TrainStationGoodbye to his lover.
-->''Well, the train come in the station
And I looked her in the eye
Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome
That I could not help but cry''
-->''Well, the train come in the station
And I looked her in the eye
Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome
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Dead Artists Are Better is for fictional examples, Posthumous Popularity Potential is for real-life examples. Moving from the main page.
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* PosthumousPopularityPotential: During his lifetime Robert Johnson's fame remained limited to his own home state and he never became rich from his recording sessions. His legend only grew after his death.
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I don't think this is YMMV... There's no trope associated with it. Reads more like Trivia.
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* Fan theories suggest that he was recorded at a slower speed, but that engineers didn't notice and assumed that it was 78rpm. Played at ~85% speed, Johnson's songs sound more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsAjSb9Nmck natural and blues-y]].
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* CoveredUp -- He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/TheRollingStones ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* CoveredUp -- CoveredUp: He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/TheRollingStones ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* VindicatedByHistory: Johnson had little success in his lifetime; he performed mostly on street corners and in bars and only made a handful of recordings. Today, he's considered to be one of the greatest blues musicians.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Johnson had little success in his lifetime; he performed mostly on street corners and in bars and only made a handful of recordings. Today, he's considered to be one of the greatest blues musicians. Certainly the idea of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7x4ZS7ZZWc the President of the United States singing one of Johnson's songs]] would have sounded like a fairytale during his lifetime.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: For Blues/Jazz.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: As with most rural bluesmen of the time, Johnson often took existing songs and reworked them with his own lyrics and musical tweaking. The best documented examples are "Walking Blues" (based on Son House's "My Black Mama"), "Sweet Home Chicago" (Kokomo Arnold's "Old Original Kokomo Blues", which itself was based on other songs), and "Love in Vain" (based on Leroy Carr's "When the Sun Goes Down").
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Trivia trope.
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* ShortLivedBigImpact: Johnson died at just 27 (making him a charter member of the infamous "27 Club") but his influence is profound not only on the Blues but on Rock, R&B, Jazz, and more.
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* GatewaySeries: These days he's most listeners' introduction to acoustic {{Blues}} recorded during TheGreatDepression.
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* ShortLivedBigImpact: Johnson died at just 27 (making him a charter member of the infamous "27 Club") but his influence is profound not only on the Blues but on Rock, R&B, Jazz, and more.
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** "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" was also covered by Music/TheWhiteStripes on their self-titled debut.
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* CoveredUp -- He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/TheRollingStones ("Love in Vain Blues" as "Love in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* CoveredUp -- He became famous mostly thanks to other rock bands covering his songs, like Music/TheRollingStones ("Love In Vain"), in Vain", "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" as "Stop Breakin' Down"), Music/{{Cream}} ("Crossroads"), ("Cross Road Blues" as "Crossroads"), Music/LedZeppelin ("Traveling Riverside Blues") and Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("They're Red Hot").
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* VindicatedByHistory: Johnson had little success in his lifetime; he performed mostly on street corners and in bars and only made a handful of recordings. Today, he's considered to be one of the greatest blues musicians.
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** In addition, Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song" from [[Music/LedZeppelinII their sophomore album]] directly quotes Johnson with the line "squeeze my lemon, baby, until the juice runs down my leg".
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* Fan theories suggest that he was recorded at a slower speed, but that engineers didn't notice and assumed that it was 78rpm. Played at ~85% speed, Johnson's songs sound more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsAjSb9Nmck natural and blues-y]].
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* {{Lostalgia}} -- If only he hadn't died at 27, since everything he ever recorded ''ever'' can fit on two [=CDs=]
