Because blues music is so old and dates back even before vinyl records and other recording means, there remains a significant amount of mystery regarding its early years. Born in the American ...

Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert ... 29 songs, the bluesman had a huge influence on guitarists such as Eric Clapton and Keith Richards. Johnson is one of the most studied ...

Robert Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in the small community of Hazlehurst, Mississippi. He died 27 years later, leaving an estranged wife, a larger-than-life legend, and only a handful of ...

Why is Robert Johnson ... Hundreds of musicians from the famous to the obscure have recorded his songs over the last half-century since Johnson’s own recordings first surfaced in a major ...

This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. Why, might you ask? Because we are fortunate to have performing on this disc, perhaps the last of the practicing bluesmen that actually knew Robert ...

Classic Interview: "I’m not as intimidated by Robert Johnson as I was," Eric Clapton ... I actually have about zero tolerance for most of my old material. Especially Crossroads. The popularity of that ...

Johnson gained little notice in his life, but his songs — quoted by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin — helped ignite rock ‘n’ roll. By Reggie Ugwu This article is part of ...

December 29, 2020 • Annye Anderson, the stepsister of Robert Johnson, whose life became a founding myth of American music, has written a memoir about the real life behind the legend.

The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate ... with a ringing open first string for a bit of top end sparkle. This and the previous example are completely interchangeable – and a player such as ...

Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived ... People tend to remember him playing the popular songs of the time, more so than the somber and stabbing ...

Led Zeppelin, however, took the practice further than most ... famous lemon-squeezing lyric dates back to Robert Johnson’s “Traveling Riverside Blues” (also covered by Zeppelin), this song ...