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Originally Posted by Bushleague
Anyone want to hazard a guess at how much Robert Johnson worried about theory?
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I am sure Robert Johnson was aware of the underlying harmonic structure of the blues, ragtime and pop songs of his day , you don't get to be a great musician from being pretty crap apparently in about two years without learning a lot of stuff pretty quick. There does seem to be an assumption that black musicians of that period were too 'primitive' to know what they were doing, seems far more likely to me that the opposite is true and that they tapped into informal education networks.