What would you sacrifice for greatness? For Robert Johnson, the answer was rumored to be his very soul. The blues legend, whose haunting melodies and unparalleled guitar skills revolutionized ...

On the list is undoubtedly the King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson. The singer only recorded 29 songs during his life, tragically dying at the young age of 27 in 1938. However, his legacy is ...

In the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou, Chris Thomas King plays Tommy Johnson, a young blues guitarist modeled on the real-life musician Robert Johnson. Though he plays his ...

The biopic tells the story of famed blues musician and songwriter Robert Johnson, born in 1911 in Mississippi, a “dirt-poor, African American child who pursued his passion of music, partly as a ...

The Rolling Stones were brought together by a love of the blues, and Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts never ...

The Robert Johnson legend goes that he gained his guitar ... the real legacy of his music has influenced the generations of blues guitarists that followed. One of the things that makes Johnson's ...

And then those same blues – especially the R&B brand – begat rock & roll. It came from Robert Johnson and B.B. King filtered through Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. By the time the 1960s rolled ...

Producers of the Robert Johnson biopic will include Jesse Collins and Dionne Harmon for Jesse Collins Entertainment (The New Edition Story), as well as Sophia Dilley (HBO’s Stax: Soulsville, USA ...

Spread the love The 100 Best Blues Albums of All Time Blues music, with its rich history and profound influence on modern ...