Many of the greatest musicians have covered “Crossroad Blues” including Elmore James, John Mayer, but most popularly by Eric Clapton’s short-lived trio band Cream. He died at the age of 27 due to suspected poisoning. The myth has it that he also met his untimely death due to that bargain. The legend surrounding “Crossroad Blues” is the story of how Johnson gained his musical talents by making a bargain with the devil he met at the crossroads. Many of Johnson’s songs have become blues standards and as it is engraved on his tombstone, “he influenced millions beyond his time”. The “Crossroad Blues” or simply known as “Crossroads” is a legendary Mississippi Delta Blues classic song by one of the greatest blues artists of all time, Robert Johnson. The influence it had on many successful musicians throughout the decades cements this song as one of the greatest of the blues of all time.
The perfect balance between the vocals and the instruments, with the unique addition of horns in the 1967 recording of Rush makes it a timeless classic. The line itself as sung in the chorus “I can’t quit you baby” was written so that Dixon could draw out an impassioned performance from Rush. Rush’s original single was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1994.ĭixon explained later on in his autobiography that he had written “I Can’t Quit You Baby” out of the preoccupied relationship Rush was in. The song became a hit in the early 1960s and reached no. Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft identifies “I Can’t Quit You Baby” as a blues standard, a twelve-bar blues song that has been covered by a wide variety of great artists such as Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, an Eric Clapton. “I Can’t Quit You Baby” is a powerful blues ballad performed by Otis Rush but written and produced by legendary blues songwriter Willie Dixon. The resulting project feels noncommittal: DS4 is caught between the woozy, floating sounds of WUNNA and an older, heavier-hitting sound, yet nails neither.Here are the top 10 greatest blues songs of all time: 10. While there are some obvious outliers - the Metal Gear-like "Poochie Gown," the crunchy "Mop" - much of DS4's production falls too far into cliché, be that the tedious guitar-trap of "So Far Ahead > Empire" and "Flooded" or the bland chord progression of "Life of Sin" and "Die Alone." And no matter how hard Drake tries, there's no saving the garish '90s sex-skit revival of "P Power." After tunnelling into a very specific avenue for WUNNA, DS4 loses focus, instead spreading the rapper thin across a much wider smattering of styles. Clumsy, half-thought-out choruses on "Alotta Cake" and "Poochie Gown" do a disservice to the tracks' slick verses, "Thought I Was Playing" is a dry imitation of Gucci and Shiesty's "Like 34 and 8," and "Idk That Bitch" feels utterly inoffensive. Unfortunately, the rest of this project feels like Gunna on autopilot. "Pushin P" - which has already done the rounds on the meme circuit - sees Gunna and Thugger rattle through the "P" section of the dictionary to deliver one of the year's most bizarrely entertaining anthems. The relentlessly flowing "South to West" is tinged with a horizon-gazing importance, opening track "Private Island" catches a sleek melodic pocket, and the Young Pluto back-to-back of "Too Easy" is like a "2.0" of Future's already-excellent "Riding Strikers." A weirdly comedic angle appears in some of Gunna's writing here and makes for a refreshing surprise, given the rapper's distant, money-driven persona. That's not to say there's not plenty to enjoy here. It can't help but feel a little like a step back. This time, the drums come with a little more punch, with rhythms urged forward by frantic beeps and whomping 808s. While its predecessor honed the spacey "Skybox" soundscapes of the rapper's late-2010s output, DS4 pulls back to the more generalized approach of his earlier work.
The follow-up to 2020's WUNNA, DS4Ever occupies the same grey area as Chief Keef's Bang 3 and Lil Baby's Harder Than Ever, being both Gunna's third studio album and the fourth instalment in his formative Drip Season (DS) series of mixtapes.
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