Funny im really into blues but only found him recently. He is clearly a great vocalist and one of the best guitarists ever. How has he not more known about?
There's 1 thing that many people watching this don't see and some can hear it, but those truly paying attention can feel the pain in Johnny's voice and playing because he still missing Robert and is determined to do all he can to honour Robert by playing his songs. I swear as Johnny was playing Kind Hearted Woman, I felt like Robert was Robert was standing right there behind Johnny with his hand on Johnny's should and saying, "You got this and I'm right here with you." Sadly both and countless other legends now gone back home to Heaven and I hope they're all resting peacefully up there 🙏🙏🙏
For everyone who would have loved to have seen Robert Johnson in concert. He would have sounded similar to his old touring pal, Johnny Shines. This is pure gold.
This is the closest thing to video of "how" Robert Johnson played. This is it. Listen to the vibrato of the voice. The phrasing.. And the rhythm and fingering. Unreal.
According to the legend, so I have heard, he played with Robert Johnson, when he was a young man… He learned from the best! And I actually had the privilege of traveling on the road with Johnny Shines and I heard the stories. Just ask Kent Duchenne.
Thanks for posting this. Shines travelled throughout the US & even Canada with Robert Johnson in the 1930s and they were close: that's why he can play Robert Johnson's songs better than anyone else, although Shines' style is kinda more mournful than Johnson's, who could play different types of Blues (like Ragtime, "Piedmont Blues" from the southern eastern states, etc.. as in Red Hot or "From Four 'Til Late, etc..) in order to entertain all kinds of audiences. As a guitarist Shines was even better than Muddy Waters. He made both acoustic albums, like the ones on Testament Records with Walter Horton on harmonica (who knew Johnson when he was 13 in Helena, Arkansas; his older sister was one of Johnson's many girlfriends) as electric Blues, like the albums with The Chicago Blues All-Stars and Robert Jr Lockwood. The album Too Wet To Plow (recorded in Canada in 1970, if I remember correctly) with Louisiana Red (gtr) & Sugar Blue (hrmnca) must be one of his best ones. There'a photo from one of Johnson's sons, Claud Johnson, allegedly of Johnson & Shines as young men in the 1930s, one of the three extant photos of Robert Johnson. Shines passed away the very day I was supposed to (finally) meet him to open for him at the Gloucester Blues Festival, UK, in April 1992. Again, thanks for uploading this, you've done a terrific job.
Thank you so much for mentioning all the good that Johnny Shines did for the blues… I had the great privilege of traveling and playing with Kent Duchenne and Johnny, I did not share the stage with Johnny. I did share the stage with Kent Duchenne and I can tell you that Johnny was a marvel and it was such an honor to even ride in the same bus as Johnny in his last days His work was amazing and he was a true, blues musician. He embodied the blues.
J'ai eu la chance de le voir dans une salle au trois quart vide en région parisienne...( 91 ) Plus ou moins paralysé il me reste un souvenir d'une voix de cristal!!! jamais retrouvé sur Lp...
"When we played for Polish people, we had to play Polish music. I learned “Beer Barrel Polka”, “Too Fat Polka”, as well as a few Jewish tunes. We had to learn them too". (Johnny Shines interview, referencing his time with Robert Johnson)
Johnny would often play a club in my hometown, Graham's drive in or as locals called it keystone right here in Camden Arkansas history is everywhere look around
That's great footage (and great sound too) of Johnny Shines. Though Johnny plays and sings RobertJ more properly I still really love Robert Lockwood doing RJ on his 12 string electric. Lockwood doesn't go for authentic quite so much but he really makes the songs his own! Still, this is great!
Oh, baby don't you want to go? Oh, baby don't you want to go? Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago Oh, baby don't you want to go? Oh, baby don't you want to go? Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago Now one and one is two Two and two is four I'm heavy loaded, baby I'm booked, I gotta go Cryin' baby Honey don't you want to go? Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago Now two and two is four Four and two is six You gonna keep monkeyin' round with your friend-boy, you gonna get your Business all in a trick But I'm cryin' baby Honey don't you wanna go? Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago Now six and two is eight Eight and two is ten Friend-boy, she trick you one time She sure gonna do it again But I'm cryin' hey, hey Baby don't you want to go? To the land of California To my sweet home Chicago I'm goin' to California From there to Des Moines Iowa Somebody will tell me that you Need my help someday, cryin' Hey, hey Baby don't you want to go? Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago ---------------------------- I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world for me I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world for me But these evil-hearted women, man, they will not let me be I love my baby, my baby don't love me I love my baby, my baby don't love me But I really love that woman, can't stand to leave her be Ain't but the one thing, makes Mister Johnson drink I's worried about how you treat me, baby, I begin to think Oh, babe, my life don't feel the same You breaks my heart, when you call Mister So-and-So's name She's a kindhearted woman, she studies evil all the time She's a kindhearted woman, she studies evil all the time You well's to kill me, as to have it on your mind -------------------------- I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees Asked the Lord above, "Have mercy, now, save poor Bob if you please" Ooh, standin' at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride Ooh-ee, I tried to flag a ride Didn't nobody seem to know me, babe, everybody pass me by Standin' at the crossroad, baby, risin' sun goin' down Standin' at the crossroad, baby, eee-eee, risin' sun goin' down I believe to my soul, now, poor Bob is sinkin' down You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown That I got the crossroad blues this mornin', Lord, babe, I'm sinkin' down And I went to the crossroad, mama, I looked east and west I went to the crossroad, baby, I looked East and West Lord, I didn't have no sweet woman, ooh well, babe, in my distress
@@whasudr Sweet home Chicago comes from Kokomo's blues, and I don't know anything sounding like kindhearted woman, but perhaps... Btw, Sweet home Chicago is much more about California than Illinois. Perhaps we think about the wrong Chicago. Port Chicago Ca, sweet home of one of Robert 's beloved relatives? People talk & write about that. We'll see...
i just discovered that Johnny Shines is family....my grandfather's brother...Music is definitely in the family genes...What a blessing.
You should learn to play!
That is the Blues
Are you from Tennessee?
he was a great bluesman,just love him.
@@kennyguitarallen5662 Saw him in concert in Chicago in 1990 and also have his autograph. Amazing show.
A shame Johnny Shines never received the recognition he truly deserved.
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Funny im really into blues but only found him recently. He is clearly a great vocalist and one of the best guitarists ever. How has he not more known about?
I just recently discovered him. So glad I did!! I think he's one of the best Bluesmen.
Im disturbed by how glaringly underrated he was and still is...as close of an experience of RJ from the afterlife as you can get, bravo.
Surely one of the greatest musicians that I’ve had the good fortune to see and hear.
There's 1 thing that many people watching this don't see and some can hear it, but those truly paying attention can feel the pain in Johnny's voice and playing because he still missing Robert and is determined to do all he can to honour Robert by playing his songs.
I swear as Johnny was playing Kind Hearted Woman, I felt like Robert was Robert was standing right there behind Johnny with his hand on Johnny's should and saying, "You got this and I'm right here with you."
Sadly both and countless other legends now gone back home to Heaven and I hope they're all resting peacefully up there 🙏🙏🙏
For everyone who would have loved to have seen Robert Johnson in concert. He would have sounded similar to his old touring pal, Johnny Shines. This is pure gold.
It is my understanding that he actually toured and played with Robert Johnson… Ask Kent Duchenne to make sure😊
This is the closest thing to video of "how" Robert Johnson played. This is it.
Listen to the vibrato of the voice. The phrasing.. And the rhythm and fingering. Unreal.
According to the legend, so I have heard, he played with Robert Johnson, when he was a young man… He learned from the best! And I actually had the privilege of traveling on the road with Johnny Shines and I heard the stories. Just ask Kent Duchenne.
cant believe how good johnny was playing those tunes
He's playing rhythm and soloing at the same time. Amazing guitar work!!!
Yes, one of the best and greatly underrated....but never forgotten...anyone new to these archives will see what a treasure this guy is.
I spent decent amount of time with Johnny n Robert Junior what a blessing not to be taken for the granted or wasted 😎🙏🙏🙏🦾
Jonny Shines is the real deal, coming from DEEP DOWN inside his southern soul spirit - he ain't just playing tunes!
Awesome seeing a guy play and sing, who toured with Robert Johnson. Obviously, he learned from Mr. Johnson, too. Thanks for posting this gem.
My favourite blues man. Great guitar player and a powerful rich voice. He was a beautiful man.
Never got the credit he deserved his style of playing was unique
Simply awesome
This man had a great sadness. I can see it in his eyes.
Thanks for posting this. Shines travelled throughout the US & even Canada with Robert Johnson in the 1930s and they were close: that's why he can play Robert Johnson's songs better than anyone else, although Shines' style is kinda more mournful than Johnson's, who could play different types of Blues (like Ragtime, "Piedmont Blues" from the southern eastern states, etc.. as in Red Hot or "From Four 'Til Late, etc..) in order to entertain all kinds of audiences. As a guitarist Shines was even better than Muddy Waters. He made both acoustic albums, like the ones on Testament Records with Walter Horton on harmonica (who knew Johnson when he was 13 in Helena, Arkansas; his older sister was one of Johnson's many girlfriends) as electric Blues, like the albums with The Chicago Blues All-Stars and Robert Jr Lockwood. The album Too Wet To Plow (recorded in Canada in 1970, if I remember correctly) with Louisiana Red (gtr) & Sugar Blue (hrmnca) must be one of his best ones. There'a photo from one of Johnson's sons, Claud Johnson, allegedly of Johnson & Shines as young men in the 1930s, one of the three extant photos of Robert Johnson.
Shines passed away the very day I was supposed to (finally) meet him to open for him at the Gloucester Blues Festival, UK, in April 1992. Again, thanks for uploading this, you've done a terrific job.
that's a trip
Thank you so much for mentioning all the good that Johnny Shines did for the blues… I had the great privilege of traveling and playing with Kent Duchenne and Johnny, I did not share the stage with Johnny. I did share the stage with Kent Duchenne and I can tell you that Johnny was a marvel and it was such an honor to even ride in the same bus as Johnny in his last days His work was amazing and he was a true, blues musician. He embodied the blues.
J'ai eu la chance de le voir dans une salle au trois quart vide en région parisienne...( 91 ) Plus ou moins paralysé il me reste un souvenir d'une voix de cristal!!! jamais retrouvé sur Lp...
"When we played for Polish people, we had to play Polish music. I learned “Beer Barrel Polka”, “Too Fat Polka”, as well as a few Jewish tunes. We had to learn them too". (Johnny Shines interview, referencing his time with Robert Johnson)
Shine on Johnny shines 🌞🎵🎼🎶🎤👏👏👏👏👍
A true master! Love him. Johnny Shines FOREVER! Thank you for posting this video
I had the privilege of seeing and hearing him play that song! Johnny Shunes 😊😊😊
is a musical god
Musical god.
以前名古屋のボトムラインで、ＢＢキングのスイートホームシカゴ聞いたのを思い出しました。いつ聞いても名曲ですね
Shine on eternally Big Brother Johnny💥💫🙏🙏🙏🦾
Johnny would often play a club in my hometown, Graham's drive in or as locals called it keystone right here in Camden Arkansas history is everywhere look around
Wow, Johnny Shines is epic, great Gibson he is playing.
It's a shame some slick music store talked him out of it. He ended up with an Alvarez. He talked about getting the Gibson back but probably never did.
This is the best rendition that I've ever heard next to Robert Johnson himself.
mr shines used to travel an play with Robert for a year or so.
only person ever did JOHNNY SHINES proper know him well...love ya old friend
Oooo this is so beautiful 🙏🙏
expanding mr. johnson's guitar vocabulary while staying deep in the style
loved it excellent
Yes closest to Robert Johnson I’ve heard. Wish they had taken more footage of the the left hand. Truly masterful delta blues playing, fantastic
Holy $@&$& your watching one of the worlds greatest!!!!!!
Raw talent!!!
Wonderful
That was amazing! Superb, masterful and he made it all his own.
Edited for auto spelling!
Mesmerizing!
Inspirational ‼️😎🎶🎸
Super Legend!!!!
Awesome !
he's the man
That's great footage (and great sound too) of Johnny Shines. Though Johnny plays and sings RobertJ more properly I still really love Robert Lockwood doing RJ on his 12 string electric. Lockwood doesn't go for authentic quite so much but he really makes the songs his own! Still, this is great!
Beautiful! I hope that Guralnick writes his biography. I talked to Larry Cohn about it once, years ago. He's a great guy!
Great!
Superb, what more can be said?..
amazing
Johnny does Shine ❤️😎
Brasil 2023
Despite french TV's text, these song are from Robert Johnson, but you know that, y'all.
Maravillosa versión.
Nails Robert Johnson songs.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
the best!!!!!!!
Kn hell awesome
Required and essential study and listening IMO.
I luv thi$
Oh, baby don't you want to go?
Oh, baby don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
Oh, baby don't you want to go?
Oh, baby don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
Now one and one is two
Two and two is four
I'm heavy loaded, baby
I'm booked, I gotta go
Cryin' baby
Honey don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
Now two and two is four
Four and two is six
You gonna keep monkeyin' round with your friend-boy, you gonna get your
Business all in a trick
But I'm cryin' baby
Honey don't you wanna go?
Back to the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
Now six and two is eight
Eight and two is ten
Friend-boy, she trick you one time
She sure gonna do it again
But I'm cryin' hey, hey
Baby don't you want to go?
To the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
I'm goin' to California
From there to Des Moines Iowa
Somebody will tell me that you
Need my help someday, cryin'
Hey, hey
Baby don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
----------------------------
I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world for me
I got a kindhearted woman, do anything in this world for me
But these evil-hearted women, man, they will not let me be
I love my baby, my baby don't love me
I love my baby, my baby don't love me
But I really love that woman, can't stand to leave her be
Ain't but the one thing, makes Mister Johnson drink
I's worried about how you treat me, baby, I begin to think
Oh, babe, my life don't feel the same
You breaks my heart, when you call Mister So-and-So's name
She's a kindhearted woman, she studies evil all the time
She's a kindhearted woman, she studies evil all the time
You well's to kill me, as to have it on your mind
--------------------------
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above, "Have mercy, now, save poor Bob if you please"
Ooh, standin' at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride
Ooh-ee, I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me, babe, everybody pass me by
Standin' at the crossroad, baby, risin' sun goin' down
Standin' at the crossroad, baby, eee-eee, risin' sun goin' down
I believe to my soul, now, poor Bob is sinkin' down
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
That I got the crossroad blues this mornin', Lord, babe, I'm sinkin' down
And I went to the crossroad, mama, I looked east and west
I went to the crossroad, baby, I looked East and West
Lord, I didn't have no sweet woman, ooh well, babe, in my distress
Regarding Robert Johnson material, Robert Lockwood, Jr., also knew how to play it.
i reckon a life story movie of this great played by Eddie Griffin would be amazing if taken up by the right director.
Great voice,great playing as opposed to some many posers infecting the internet
why are the songs credited to him in the video?
Pretty sure the first 2 are traditional songs Robert Johnson didn't write them.
Because it's french tv.
@@whasudr Sweet home Chicago comes from Kokomo's blues, and I don't know anything sounding like kindhearted woman, but perhaps... Btw, Sweet home Chicago is much more about California than Illinois. Perhaps we think about the wrong Chicago. Port Chicago Ca, sweet home of one of Robert 's beloved relatives? People talk & write about that. We'll see...
This man was better than Robert Johnson