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

[David Lennick]

I think it wants me to buy a new computer to support the new flash player. Not 
something I'm prepared to do this week.

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> Did you try cutting and pasting it into your browser instead of just clicking on the hyperlink?
> 
> Cary Ginell
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 3:15 pm
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Don Law's notes about Robert Johnson
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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
> soundthink at aol.com wrote:
>  Courtesy of 
>  Tom Reney
>  "Jazz à la Mode"
>  Monday-Friday, 8 - 11 p.m.
>  WFCR
>  NPR News and Music for Western New England
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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 
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>  
>  Cary Ginell
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