Talk:Tommy Johnson (musician)

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message: I suggested merging the Canned Heat Blues article into Tommy Johnson because it does not seem important enough (and doesn't seem to have enough material) to merit its own article. If anyone has any comments please let me know on my talk page, then we can return here and discuss it. --Merond e 07:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I went ahead and merged the articles. --Merond e 07:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging "Canned Heat Blues" here

message: I am not sure why this article says that the story of Tommy Johnson selling his soul was later erroneously attributed to Robert Johnson. Why can't they both have this in common. I doubt that this story of selling one's soul was just a matter of a mistaken identity because they share the same last name, especially since Robert Johnson has two songs about his encounter with the devil("crossroads" and "me and the devil blues").  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.162.32 (talk) 05:50, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect it's because Robert Johnson is better known, so people assume it's a reference to him, when it's clearly a reference to a less well known musician. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 11:27, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to what the guys at Radiolab dug up, the story of a blues musician selling his soul to the Devil is about Tommy Johnson, not Robert Johnson. Dave Evans recorded an interview with Tommy Johnson's brother, LeDell Johnson, who told the story of Tommy Johnson selling his soul to the Devil by a crossroads. Pete Welding was then presented with the recording of this intervew, and apparently decided that Robert Johnson, with his song about the Devil and the song "Crossroads", would fit well into that story rather than Tommy Johnson. He then published an article claiming just that, based on an interview he had done with Son House who had known Robert Johnson. Pete Welding is assumed to have been asking leading questions in order to base the statements in his article on this interview. http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/apr/16/crossroads/  There is a big effort made by Tommy Johnson's family to clear out this misconception and get Tommy Johnson recognized for his influence on the blues. http://www.erinharpe.com/fr_blog.cfm I might add this to the article myself, if no one else more familiar with the Wiki is going to take on doing it, as I'm completely new here. MagnusOxlund (talk) 19:45, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The article claims the erroneous attribution occurred post 1971, which doesn't make much sense to anybody with a passing familiarity with the British blues boom of the 1960s. Gwladys24 (talk) 23:07, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Selling Soul Erroneously Attributed to Robert Johnson

message: The two of them don't sound like the same melody at all. Maybe the similarity is something in the accompaniment? Or a different song by Tommy Johnson? 4.172.0.109 (talk) 22:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sitting On Top Of  The World/Big Road Blues 

message: The article says there's a dispute about the headstone, but doesn't say what the dispute is about. That sounds like an important detail that could go in the article. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 11:29, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: An image of the headstone would be very helpful for the article. K8 fan (talk) 07:26, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headstone Dispute 

message: The image I just added is reportedly of Johnson in 1916, thus in the public domain in the United States and most of the world. K8 fan (talk) 01:53, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
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