My Brotha, Of anotha Motha!!  Now I know you are Cool!!  Robert Johnson had a HUGE influence on Rock-N-Roll for sure.

When I first hear Elmore  James, I was drawn to the slide guitar and the Bluesy sound.  For a kid growing up in Colorado, it had opened up a whole new world for me.  Dust my broom what the first song I ever heard from EJ, but "The Sky is Crying" is a classic.  Then when my all-time favorite guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan did that song, O'Man I was is heaven!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo80b-QfK0

The wife and I are looking at going to see Dick Dale in Ocean City this year!!  Now that would be cool!!