The Robert Johnson legend goes that he gained his guitar virtuosity from the Devil after a midnight meeting at a Crossroads, as described in the song he recorded back in the 1930s – and rejuvenated ...

A photograph of legendary blues ... chronicles Johnson's path to recognition – from his illegitimate birth, to "his first strum of the guitar on Anderson's father's knee" and the recordings that would ...

Annye Anderson was only 12 years old when her stepbrother, Robert Johnson, died in 1938 ... his fingers forming a chord on the neck of his guitar. Indeed, the photo is as much a portrait of ...

soft-spoken guitar player. Robert Johnson’s origins are as opaque as the otherworldly legend that colored the final years of his life. Historians estimate the future blues icon was born in the ...

Why is Robert Johnson, above all other blues players, the preeminent figure ... “Just look at the picture of him with the acoustic guitar: His fingers are in the weirdest position.