Today, we can listen to over one hundred years of blues. Sylvester Weaver’s unaccompanied instrumental Guitar Blues (1923) may be the earliest example of recorded blues guitar, with Son House, Charlie ...

Larry Mantle talks with writer and musician Elijah Wald about his new book Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins). Larry Mantle talks ...

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 ...

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 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Robert Johnson’s music that grabs you by the soul and doesn’t let go. Maybe it’s the rasp in his voice, the haunted slide of his guitar, or the way his lyrics ...

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 ...

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 South ...

Numerous books, films, documentaries, countless articles and much speculation has been devoted to the life, death and legend of Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson. Annye Anderson is the author of the ...

In her 2020 book "Brother Robert," Robert Johnson's stepsister provides a portrait of the seminal blues music figure from a different perspective - out of the juke joints and away from the crossroads.