The Search for Robert Johnson
by Chris Hunt
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Actor: Eric Clapton, Gayle Dean Wardlow, John Hammond, Keith Richards, Robert Burton McCormickDirector: Chris Hunt
Brand: JOHNSON,ROBERT
Cinematographer: Paul Bond
Producer: Chris Hunt
Editor: Stuart Davidson
Producer: Caz Gorham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo; English (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 72 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony
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DVD Review: A wonderful DVD bringing together many people who at least tangentially, knew Robert Johnson.
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD offers a wealth of information about the life of Robert Johnson. We meet a girlfriend of Robert Johnson, who claims she knows where his actual burial ground is, and another girlfriend who had a song written about her by Robert (and who hears it for the first time on the DVD). A man is interviewed who claims to be Robert Johnson's son, along with a birth certificate showing that in fact this may be the case. Johnny Shines talks about how they would play the game of "cutting heads" in Helena, with Robert stealing away the audience every time. We get the insight that the person who poisoned Robert Johnson's drink admitted as such to one interviewer, after first presenting an alibi for a question which was never asked. We are also presented with three possible grave sites of Robert Johnson, though none of them can proven to be incontrovertible as such. In short, there is a lot of good information on this DVD about the enigmatic bluesman known as Robert Johnson (and pseudonyms in various other places). This DVD is clearly a window into the past which will slowly disappear as the years go on......Hammond does us all a great service by documenting Robert Johnson's life and that of his contemporaries.
The one complaint I would have is that at times Hammond (an excellent blues singer in his own right) himself is singing RJ's songs, and at the bottom of the screen it will have the name of Robert Johnson along with the songs title. This may leave those with little knowledge of the blues to conclude it is actually Robert Johnson who is singing, when in fact it is not. Also, there are montages throughout the film when they will be talking about Robert Johnson while at the same time showing pictures of blacks in bars and juke joints, without saying that in fact Robert Johnson is not in the photograph, as there are only two known photographs of him, and each one of these show him alone in the picture. To the novice blues fan, they may not know this and think they are actually seeing Robert Johnson, and I think this fact should have been made clear in the film.
Even with the above provisos, this was an excellent documentary on Robert Johnson's life....Hammond clearly has a deep love for the blues and the early musicians of the delta.
**** 1/2 stars.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: JOHNSON,ROBERT
Title: SEARCH FOR ROBERT JOHNSON
Street Release Date: 10/31/2000
Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL
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