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Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
Apr 2, 2014 · Musician Robert Johnson is best known as one of the greatest blues performers of all time, a recognition that came largely after his death at age 27.
Oct 31, 2021 · Robert Johnson was a guitar virtuoso who played across the South in the early 1900s, but much of his life remains a mystery, leading fans to fill in the blanks with outlandish myths. Robert Johnson was one of the greatest blues musicians who’s ever lived.
Aug 12, 2024 · Robert Johnson, American composer, guitarist, and singer whose eerie falsetto singing voice and masterful rhythmic slide guitar influenced both his contemporaries and many later blues and rock musicians.
Sep 25, 2019 · As recounted in Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch’s biography, “Robert Johnson: Lost and Found” (2003), Johnson, perhaps as a teenager, attended juke joint performances by the early Delta ...
Robert Johnson influenced everyone from Muddy Waters to The Rolling Stones, and shaped the future of rock’n’roll. We celebrate his life and legacy. One of the first inductees into the Rock and ...
The Original Complete Recordings has 41 tracks, but there are two versions of Traveling Riverside Blues. Therefore, on this list, there are 42 tracks.
That child was Robert Johnson, an itinerant blues singer and guitarist who lived from 1911 to 1938. He recorded 29 songs between 1936 and ‘37 for the American Record Corporation, which released eleven 78rpm records on their Vocalion label during Johnson¹s lifetime, and one after his death.
“Robert Johnson was an incredible guitar player and singer. On these songs, he sounds like three guys, because he’s playing a bass line, a rhythm and slide leads, all at the same time. There are guys who can nail it note-for-note, but it’s lacking the spark of creativity.
Robert Johnson stands at the crossroads of American music, much as it is rumored that he once stood at a Mississippi crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his unique musical gifts. His life and art, hopelessly intermingled because of the few facts we know about him, ...
