My favorite story surrounding Robert Johnson is from an interview with the above-mentioned Son House. He described how Robert used to bother him and Willie Brown to borrow their guitars at gigs while House and Brown were on a break. Son said, "I used to tell him, 'go on, now, Robert; you just be noising the people'." "NOISING the people"... noise as a verb. I love it. It has, coincidentally, always been my belief that the most talented people in the world are those who DON'T sell their souls to devils or anyone else. The ones who populate the shallow and mindless corporate music(sic) industry are the ones whose souls, if they have any, are in the iron grip of Satan himself.
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