Phonograph Blues: The Legacy of Robert Johnson. Almost immediately, Johnson's death started to have an affect on the blues and music world. John Hammond, a music entrepreneur from New York ...

Led Zeppelin looked to blues legend Robert Johnson as the originator of their music. But how many of Johnson's compositions did Zeppelin draw from directly?

The late blues scholar, musician and writer Julian ... Wolf had learnt them so well that he fell in love with the music.

A great cover is more than a different version of a song – it re-articulates the track and injects it with new meaning. Some ...

This year, Smithsonian Books took that work and published “Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey,” edited by John Troutman, curator of music and musical instruments at the ...

Booking, Management Style: Blues Rock Whether it’s true or not, it very much feels like Sophia Blue has been worshipping at ...

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues ... Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Enduring legends took hold, none more potent than the myth that Delta bluesman Robert ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

She says she wanted to pay homage to both the "treacherous" road and also the birthplace of country music in Bristol.

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues.

Robert Johnson is a cannabis industry veteran, consultant, product developer and CEO of supplement manufacturer Custom Capsule Consultants. Read Robert's full executive profile here. The ...