[78-L] Don Law's notes about Robert Johnson

[soundthink at aol.com]

Did you try cutting and pasting it into your browser instead of just clicking on the hyperlink?

Cary Ginell


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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The article opens fine but the link to the letter (in both incarnations) starts 
treaming and goes nowhere..anybody have better luck with it?
dl
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 This link will bring you to a copy of the typewritten letter (now held at the 
ibrary of Congress) that Frank Driggs sent to Don Law seeking information about 
he Robert Johnson sessions that Law had produced 24/25 years earlier in Dallas 
nd San Antonio. Â Law's handwritten reply appears on the letter. Â This is 
here the story originated about Johnson turning his back while he played for 
ome Mexican musicians, and of the phone call he made to Law about his encounter 
ith a prostitute: "There is a lady here. She wants 50 cents and I lacks a 
ickel." Â Â Driggs assumes Johnson to be a man who'd never left the plantation 
e was born on, but later research found him to have been an itinerant musician 
ho made his way to Memphis, St. Louis, Illinois, and quite possibly Detroit, 
inds
or, Ontario, New York City, and other eastern states in addition to the 
rips to Texas for the Brunswick sessions.
 Â 
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/11129232/20090122125042109
 
 And this to the article in the Dallas Observer about the fate of the building 
here the Dallas recording session took place in 1937.
 Dallas - Unfair Park - From 1961, Don Law's Notes Concerning What Took Place 
t 508 Park Avenue in June 1937 <http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/01/from_1961_don_laws_notes_conce.php> 
 Â 
 
 
 Cary Ginell
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