Born in 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, he spent much of his short life traveling, performing, and evading the hardships of the Jim Crow South. The legend of Robert Johnson’s Faustian bargain ...

Ryan Coogler's Sinners creates a mythology all its own, but takes inspiration from the real-life legend of a blues musician ...

Seven months is all Robert Johnson needed. Two sessions. Twenty-nine songs. In unquestionably the shortest run to become a ...

On the list is undoubtedly the King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson ... he sold his soul to the Devil for his mastery of ...

In the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou, Chris Thomas King plays Tommy Johnson, a young blues guitarist ...

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther) has family roots in that era, and potent memories of his ...