As the story goes, Johnson met the devil at a crossroads and sold his soul in exchange for unparalleled guitar prowess. This perennial fable, rooted in American folklore and the haunting melodies of ...

Robert Johnson’s death is a reminder of the fragility of life and the enduring power of myth, leaving us to wonder whether ...

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 ...

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

While there’s a museum honoring the late blues musician Robert Johnson in ... of how he sold his soul to the devil to play the blues. However, Green and Johnson say there is more to his legacy ...