Heading into the Colorado Plateaus
Heading southwest out of town around sunset into mesa country with the moon high above the mighty cliffs of Zion.
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WRJAWTA: Which Robert Johnson Are We Talking About?
Earlier, we covered Robert Leroy Johnson, an American blues singer & guitarist (1911-1938 and henceforth RJ3 in this post) for reasons that will quickly become self explanatory. Part of that discussion was about the controversy over photographs of RJ3. The BBC covered RJ3 in a six part series entitled ' Hellhound On His Trail -Robert Johnson Story' There is another Robert Johnson, a composer & lutenist (c.1583-c.1634 and henceforth RJ2 in this post to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer) of whom there are inarguably no photographs extant. RJ2 was a musical collaborator wih playright William Shakespeare (1554-1615) at a time before the invention of photography. If you want an argument about the authenticity of Shakespeare, you should look elsewhere. The headline picture is of Lucy Skeeping, a presenter on the ' Early Music Show ' from BBC Radio 3. You can read about the selection of music played in the Sat. 24 Sep. 2011 edition of the show that fe
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