Robert Johnson
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Smithsonian Readying a New Robert Johnson Biography and a Trove of Unheard Field Recordings
The releases are the first based on material from the collection of storied folklorist Robert “Mack” McCormick
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The 27 Club: A Brief History
From Robert Johnson to Anton Yelchin, 20 stars who died at 27
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Netflix Animates Robert Johnson's Sinister Origin Story in New Doc Trailer
'ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads' examines legendary blues guitarist's mysterious life and death
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Q&A: Jack White on New Dead Weather and Solo Tracks, Radio City Walk-off
No shows booked for this year: 'It's nice to have an open road in front of me'
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The Complete Recordings
This remastered two-disc collection brings an unprecedented level of clarity, intimacy and immediacy to immortal Thirties blues recordings that laid a blueprint for everyone from Eric Clapton to Jack White. No new songs have emerged. But the producers' painstaking care makes bone-chilling cuts like "Cross Road Blues" and "Love in Vain" sound entirely fresh, as […]
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King Of The Delta Blues Singers (Volume 2)
It's packages like this that turn ordinary music lovers into cynics: First, Legacy bundled mythic bluesman Robert Johnson's entire recorded output into the 1990 two-disc collection The Complete Recordings, and since then the label has unbundled the limited trove for different single volumes — one for the Martin Scorsese Blues project, now two patterned after […]
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Keith Richards Gets His Blues On
The rock & roll Batman drops in on a Southport, Connecticut club
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Q&A: Jack White on Zeppelin, Motown, and His Love of The Blues
The White Stripes frontman dabbled in Led Zeppelin, but Robert Johnson and Son House blew his mind
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Keith Richards: 'Throw Me One of Those Bones, We'll Eat It Forever'
A conversation with the 54-year-old last rock & roller while in the swing of the Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon tour
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Eric Clapton: Living on Blues Power
Whether or not you think he's God, his mastery of the blues might get you crying tears in heaven
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