Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughn

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All dying young before their time, but all leaving behind a legacy that could not be forgotten these musicians will forever inspire and amaze.

Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughn

Robert Johnson a true blues legend

These are some of the most influential blues guitarists. My favorite Jimi Hendrix song is ‘Red house’ without a doubt but, he has many other songs that I truly appreciate. My favorite Robert Johnson song is ‘Sweet home Chicago’ a true blues anthem only a legend could compose. My favorite Stevie Ray Vaughn song is ‘The sky is cryin’. All three of these men were prolific in their quest to explore the blues guitar and true deep emotion of the music. All dying young before their time, but all leaving behind a legacy that could not be forgotten these musicians will forever inspire and amaze. Johnson was simple yet humbly one of the greatest to ever express himself through his guitar, Jimi was pushing the blues with a fierce new boundary breaking experience of what music could be and Stevie amazed us with his unique vibrant charm that only he had.

James Marshall Hendrix
November 27th, 1942 - September 18, 1970
Jimi Hendrix was a self taught musician. This was part of his learning process he would often take from other famous artists of the time including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Holly, and Robert Johnson. Jimi had a rise to fame which was like a rocket shooting straight up. Another interesting fact was he was unable to read or write music, it is nothing short of remarkable that Jimi Hendrix's sudden rise in the music happened in just four short years. Being humbly self-taught, Jimmy's inability to read music made him concentrate even harder on the music he heard. He would listen to blues records for hours listening and practicing the notes by memory. The influence in which he has on the blues and rock will never be matched by another. His special guitar musical language continues to influence a host of modern musicians, from George Clinton to Miles Davis, and Stevie ray Vaughn to Jonny Lang.

Robert Johnson was born in the famous Mississippi Delta
(Hazlehurst, Mississippi) sometime around May 8, 1911, the 11th child of Julia Major Dodds, who had previously born 10 children to her husband Charles Dodds.
Of all the great blues musicians, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) was probably the most interesting, mysterious and obscure. All that is known of him for certain is that he recorded 29 songs; he died young; and he was one of the greatest bluesmen of the Mississippi Delta.
There are only five dates in Johnson's life that can undeniably be used to assign him to a place in history: Monday, November 23; Thursday, November 26; and Friday, November 27, 1936, he was in San Antonio, Texas, at a recording session. Seven month s later, on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20, 1937, he was in Dallas at another session. Everything else about his life is an attempt at reconstruction. As director Martin Scorsese says in his foreword to Alan Greenberg's play Love In Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson, "The thing about Robert Johnson was that he only existed on his records. He was pure legend."
He died on Tuesday, August 16, 1938, in Greenwood; cause of death: murder.

Stevie Ray Vaughn
Born: Oct 3, 1954 in Dallas, TX
Died: Aug 27, 1990 in East Troy, WI
Stevie was born in Dallas, he also grew up there. Vaughan started earl playing guitar as a child, inspired by his older brother Jimmie. When he was in junior high school, he began his career as a musician playing in a number of garage bands, which occasionally landed gigs in local nightclubs. By the time he was 17, he had dropped out of high school to concentrate on playing music. Vaughan's first real band was the Cobras, who played clubs and bars in Austin during the mid-'70s.

Stevie was addicted to cocaine for many years. However, he went clean and straightened up his life.

After a concert, Stevie Ray boarded a helicopter bound for Chicago. Minutes after its 12:30 a.m. takeoff, the helicopter crashed, killing Vaughan and the other four passengers. He was only 35 years old.

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