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🗓️ 23 November 2022
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November 23, 1936 was a good day for recorded music. Two men, an ocean apart, sat before a microphone and began to play. One, Pablo Casals, was a cello prodigy who had performed for the Queen of Spain. The other, Robert Johnson, played guitar and was a regular in the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta. These recordings would change music history.
This episode originally aired on NPR in 2011.
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0:56.0 | On November 23rd, 1936, two men sat down in front of a microphone and began to play. |
1:10.7 | These two men couldn't have been more different. |
1:12.8 | One was a celloprology who had performed before the Queen of Spain. |
1:16.6 | The other played guitar in the Duke joints of the Mississippi Delta. |
1:19.6 | This is the sound of one of the world's greatest classical cellists, |
1:27.9 | and probably the most legendary blues guitarist of all time, jamming together. |
1:43.6 | Of course, it didn't really happen, not like that anyway. |
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