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 ...
This is FRESH AIR. Our rock critic Ken Tucker has been reading two unusual books about music history. Robert "Mack" McCormick's "Biography Of A Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey" is a ...
Annye Anderson — stepsister of Robert Johnson — published her memoir Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson in June. Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as a backwoods loner, his ...
Very little was once known about the king of the Delta blues. Many of these gaps have gradually been filled in. Robert Johnson was born in 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. He rose like a phoenix in ...
Time tends to reduce great artistry to caricature. Bob Dylan -- wasn't he a protest singer? The voice of a generation? The guy who provided the soundtrack for world peace and civil rights by writing ...
The first published novel by Kalamu ya Salaam is cause for celebration. “Walkin’ Blues,” a speculative account of the life of Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson — one of the most lauded and ...
Take a look at Mississippi in 1936. That was the year that the state’s William Faulkner published one of his greatest novels, Absalom, Absalom! That was also the year that Mississippian Robert Johnson ...
Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as a backwoods loner, his talent the result of selling his soul to the devil. Wrong and wrong again, according to Johnson's younger stepsister, who ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography ...
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