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?

如果你常听R&B、Hip Hop等类型的黑人音乐，你一定对歌曲里包含限制级内容见怪不怪，毕竟，从它们的老祖宗布鲁斯开始，黑人就把床上那些事写进了歌里，甚至成为其中一种分类。

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sadler’s Wells International Associate Company Rosas will return to Sadler’s Wells Theatre with the UK premiere of EXIT ABOVE ...

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 ...

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 ...