RMAN4443 wrote:To be fair, Robert Johnson didn't have the technology Cream and Skynyrd had.
I think the Blues Brothers did some pretty great covers of everything they did...
Also Joe Cocker's cover of Ray Charles's
Unchain My Heart was pretty good
and Santana did a pretty good job with Fleetwood Mac's(Peter Green's)
Black Magic Woman YMMV
At best Johnson would have had an amplified hollow bodied guitar but no such animal as a solid body guitar like a Broadcaster, Strat or Les Paul till years later. On his recordings, he mostly likely used acoustic guitars with a microphone placed close by. Who knows what RJ could have accomplished on a solid body had he lived longer.
Love listening to the Blues Brothers but watching them was even better! Who’da thunk John Belushi could do those back flips?
I remember when I first head Joe’s version of “Unchain My Heart”. I was still working for Sony and in the Bose Store (...Hawaii had the first one...) when the assistant store manager put on the CD. I hadn’t heard any of Joe’s stuff since “Sheffield Blues” and I was totally blown away by his rendition. Was (...and still am...) not a fan of Bose speakers but after listening to “UMH”, for a brief nanosecond, contemplated getting a pair.
“BMW” - fo’ sure Carlos’ version has more flair and body to it but I love the simplicity of FM’s original.