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Originally Posted by jackhammer
You don't have to be impressed at all. Acknowledgement is better. Virtually all the music that MB listens to in it's current form would not be possible if RJ decided to stay at home that day.
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That's unlikely. One should give credit to precursors, but to assume that minus the precursor everything after that would never have happened doesn't strike me as at all reasonable.
It's also important to note that he wasn't the only hugely influential bluesman. Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf were contemporaries and also were a big part of the blues that led to rock and pop. Removing Robert Johnson may have had an effect, but surely not to delete from history all the pop and rock that followed.