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Article: Traveling Riverside Blues: landscapes of Robert Johnson in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.(Biography)
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- Focus on Geography
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- December 22, 2006
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The lyric is harrowing and restless; the singer seems desperate. "I got to keep moving, I got to keep moving," he cries. "Blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail," he continues. Before he brings the verse to completion, he moans, or maybe it is a wail, as he repeats, "Blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail." Finally, he summons imagery that is as powerful as any in the blues lexicon by confessing, "And the days keeps on worrying me, there's a hellhound on my trail, hellhound on my trail, hellhound on my trail." Robert Johnson, a Mississippi blues musician raised in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, recorded this song on a Sunday in June ...