Chords for Bluesman Roy Rogers, on Robert Johnson

Well, the main point to me about Robert Johnson is the fact that he's such a fascinating combination of
_ Not only technique but feeling and technique that takes the music to just higher ground
_ Period and the way he does that is in a totally unique way if you look at the other players
Of that time period he just head and shoulders is above them.
How does that translate in terms of guitar technique?
You [G] know his rhythmic sense I think is key if he for example when he does a lick
He'll he'll go you'll still hear the flavor of the of the of the beat
But he'll he'll like put it behind or in front of you'll [A] go. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ I
[G] Mean, that's you feel how it's like.
It's got tension to it
It's that tension to the music that I think gives it a lot more power than it would otherwise
It is a lot more dynamics also and of course by you know
I think the other part the dynamics is that what I tell people is
It's a lot of people approach slide guitar as a very singular thing.
Okay.
Now I'm gonna take a solo now
I'm playing slide Robert Johnson _ _
completely includes slide in his rhythmic sense and that's what I like personally and I
_ stylistically and have
_ Really drawn on that for example, let me illustrate you'll do
[A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D]
You
_ [A] _ _ [G] He's using a slide in the rhythm, I mean it's like incorporated it's not like solo time
So that's a big difference a lot of people did not do that
You still had the call-and-response and the answer back and the verses and so forth and other players
But not the not the intricate way he did.
Where do you think he got that from?
Boy?
God knows I have no idea
I to me _ _ _ _
You
Can hear a little bit of that probably in in Charlie Patton I think
[D] Historically, but I think it's all his own.
I think he was the new kid on the block.
He was blazing a [D] new trail _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I Got
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ You [C] here now, [A] but you [Bm] treat me
[D] Sometimes _ _ _ _ _ [A] I'm [D] running down to the station
_ [Bm] _ Then [D] I see baby
_ _ _ _ I'm running [Bm] down to the stage.
_ I'll get the bad deal chain.
I [D] see
_ _ _ _ _ [A] I hate to leave you here now, baby, but you [D] taught me so much misery
_ _ _ _ [A] Well, I believe
I believe [Bm] I go [D] back _ _ _ _ [Am] home.
I [Bm] believe baby.
Mm-hmm.
I believe I go [D] back home.
_ _ _ _ [A] I
Got the blues from it.
So it's old and [D] this song got big
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ About [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ me
[D] Man
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ Feed me so I can
_ _ [C#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _