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In the most frequently used photo of Robert Johnson, he has a cigarette in his mouth. However, on the commemorative stamp, they edited out the cigarette.
It is said that Robert Johnson could carry on a conversation with music playing in the background and yet memorize the song while seemingly not paying attention to it playing.
I have not seen this confirmed but his “spider” fingers could reflect " Arachnodactyly, a condition in which the fingers are long, slender, and curved. They look like the legs of a spider (arachnid).
In turn, this could indicate Marfan’s syndrome (but not necessarily since it can also be reflect in Ehlers–Danlos syndromes (adult star Mandy Morbid has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, for example without the arachnodacttyly.")
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Edit Ooops, wrong thread in truth. It’ll have to do now.
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If you have Roon and Qobuz, there are ~6++ versions of Drive, live, acoustic, other artists etc. An interesting comparison is the various covers of the song or minor changes in interpretation.
I love the Song Genevieve especially the guitar.
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Sam Ryder’s dad? 
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Let’s pay homage to the blues in a long tradition with connections, to this man
Blues: La Grande Anthologie 1925 - 1962
Dimples with The Animals
It is at the same time a memory to John Lee Hooker
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This really is an astonishingly wicked album, not at all what I expected considering his “pedigree”
Most excellent!
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It is indeed!
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Hey Gang! Thank you for all the wonderful recommendations you provided here! Many of them made their way into our new Blues-Rock Founders playlist. The accompanying Roon Blog article The Blues: Founders & Followers can be found here and here 
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In the video “Elvis - One Night With You”, Elvis attempts a brief description as to how (the then) emerging music was based upon the Blues of his early life (Mississippi). While he clearly knew his heart/mind on the topic, it was difficult (for him) to explain how we got to where we are.
Also, music recorded in the States was slow to go abroad (as David Gilmour points out). Gilmour pointed out that his influences (as also revealed by Syd Barrett) were the result of their limited early access to our music.
One cannot help but being moved by the tragedy of Elvis’ life. While it is arguable, he would have stood a better chance of rehab in today’s world with our tools than during those times. (there were two who were responsible for his lack of recovery; spoke to one of them ~10 years ago; there was no expression of regrets).
The Blues of Elvis was quite well done and clearly emotionally meaningful to him in contrast to being directed to record songs lacking in substance (Eg. Blue Hawaii, for example). Even “Blue Christmas” had more substance than the songs made for movies.
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This is enjoyable background, but I need to play it louder on my main system. Couple of interlopers called Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Joe Bonnamassa on several of the tracks.
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