ALBUM RELEASE MARCH 1, 2011 TO BE SUPPORTED BY NATIONAL TOUR: “BLUES AT THE CROSSROADS: THE ROBERT JOHNSON CENTENNIAL CONCERTS" How do you throw a 100th birthday bash for the most influential bluesman ...
Blues musician Robert Johnson was honored Sunday. A free public screening of "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots and Living Legacy" took place at the Two Mississippi ...
Robert Johnson was born May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, raised in the fields and small towns of the Delta where the blues was beginning to take shape. His childhood was marked by constant ...
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 ...
Long before rock 'n' roll, stadium tours or electric guitars, a traveling blues musician stopped in San Antonio and recorded ...
A Hook Brothers studio portrait of musician Robert Johnson shows him holding a 1928 Gibson L-1 acoustic guitar. Credit: Public Domain / © 1989 www ...