Between 1932 and 1938 the Hudson Motor Co. of Detroit made an inexpensive but powerful car called the TERRAPLANE (the model had been launched by the flying ace Amelia Earhart.
During his first sessions in November 1936, Robert Johnson used the car as inspiration for a song as a barely disguised metaphor for sex. His urgent guitar and desperate voice saw to that and he had pre-dated Chuck Berry and rock’n’roll in that way by the best part of twenty years. “Terraplane Blues” was backed with “Kind Hearted Woman” for Johnson’s 78rpm release on Vocalion in 1937.
STAR BLUES on 8th May 2011 was devoted to playing one version of each of all 29 of Robert Johnson’s songs.
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