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Who Is Robert Johnson, the Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil?
What would you sacrifice for greatness? For Robert Johnson, the answer was rumored to be his very soul. The blues legend, ...
The Untitled Robert Johnson Biopic Unveiled in Honor of the King of the Delta Blues
On the list is undoubtedly the King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson. The singer only recorded 29 songs during his life, ...
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ReMastered: Netflix's music series tells the story of Robert Johnson
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 ...
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Style of Blues
Listen for the percussive style of slide guitar in Bukka White's "Panama Limited" and the emotive vocalizations in Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues," below: ...
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'The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate takes) show a musician who was technically and stylistically ahead of many of his peers': 5 ways to play like Robert Johnson ...
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 ...
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Five awesomely underappreciated blues-rock albums from the 1970s
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 ...
KALEO at the Crossroads
After a full decade living in the United States, singer-guitarist Jökull Júlíusson from the Icelandic rock band KALEO is ...
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Jesse Collins Entertainment & Concord Originals Prepping Biopic On Robert Johnson, King Of The Delta Blues
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Collins Entertainment and Concord Originals are partnering on a biopic of Robert Johnson, the influential musician nicknamed the King of the Delta Blues. The project will mark the ...
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“It was building up in the back of my mind for so long that it finally pushed its way to the fore”: Why this was the year Slash finally got the blues
This year’s blues album, announced back in March and ... Gary Clark Jr. and Demi Lovato for modern takes on old-school ...
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Salvation South
January 14, 2025 • On this episode of Salvation South Deluxe, we're debunking the Robert Johnson myth. We'll explain how the "deal with the devil" story overshadowed a blues genius and led to ...