HAZLEHURST – When a young Robert Johnson first began to play the guitar around the Delta, many fellow musicians described his playing as "chicken scratch," according to Mississippi Musicians ...

Jerry Weber said he discovered a copy of the second song ever recorded by Mississippi blues legend Robert ... nice shape." Johnson was an itinerant singer and guitarist from Hazlehurst, Miss., ...

Some people would do anything to achieve fame and success, whether that means lying, cheating, stealing, or, in the case of blues legend Robert ... 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Johnson picked ...

Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized ... Anderson's story begins with her family's roots in Hazlehurst, Miss. — including her first memory of Johnson in Memphis when he swept ...