Maura and I are flying to Texas today to spend a week there, beginning in San Antonio. Today's selection, from blues pioneer Robert Johnson, was recorded in a guest room at San Antonio's Gunter Hotel in 1936. Legend has it that Johnson recorded the whole session while facing the wall. Enjoy.
UPDATE: Unbeknownst to me when we booked it, we stayed in the Gunter Hotel last night... two doors down from Johnson's makeshift recording studio in Room 414! Awesome. I only wish we would have heard the plaintive cry of the Delta blues last night, instead of trucks on the street.
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