Tombstone of the World’s Greatest Bluesman.
What’s that stuff on his grave? A harmonica and some guitar picks; what else?
I see pennies, 2 slide tubes and the round thing is a marble [maybe even an agate ‘aggie’]
Thanks, I was wondering about those in particular. That’s what Blind Willie Johnson used a pocket knife for, right?
Whoa.
I misread the thread title as “Robert Graves’ Johnson”, which would be something entirely different.
you can use anything wide enough to go across the neck of the guitar. Most people use a small piece of tubing so it slips on their finger.
<and I have the cd of all of Robert Johnsons music … and it baffles people at work when I get the original Crossroads popping onto my shuffle amongst the Rammstein and other wierd electronica or metal … until some Bollywood cycles=) >
I use those Fender multicolored picks seen in that pic from time to time!
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Yep and folks (like me for instance) have been known to hold a beer bottle over the top of the neck in a pinch, too. There are slides in all kinds of materials…
I wondered what happened once they stopped packaging Coricidin in those little jars…
According to Wiki, someone makes reproductions.
One time I was onstage and decided to pick up a beer bottle and use it on my guitar in a fit of alcohol-induced Dadaism. Of course, being onstage, it went terribly wrong and little metallic shavings go fluttering around in the purple lighting… :eek: …gotta watch the label, there chief! :o
Just in the interest of bustin’ ignorance, unless this has been confirmed to indeed contain RJ’s remains, nobody actually knows where Johnson is buried.
There are at least three popularly-visited grave sites in the Delta, all of which are marked with gravestones labeled “Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers” or some related epitaph.
This site is in Greenwood, at the Little Zion Church graveyard. There are others in Quito, and in Morgan City.
Which one is down by the highway side?