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

[David Lennick]

Actually, that was where I took it. Wants a new flash player. I "click here to 
download the new flash player" and it decides it doesn't like the rest of my 
computer. So I go upstairs and watch Make 'Em Laugh and I forget about 
computers. Now I'm back downstairs and I'm not laughing.

dl

David Weiner wrote:
> Try the new Mozilla Firefox browser - works faster than Internet Explorer and opens everything properly. 
> 
> Dave W.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:56 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Don Law's notes about Robert Johnson
> 
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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"
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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 
>>