Because blues music is so old and dates back even before vinyl records and other recording means, there remains a significant amount of mystery regarding its early years. Born in the American South ...

This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. Why, might you ask? Because we are fortunate to have performing on this disc, perhaps the last of the practicing bluesmen that actually knew Robert ...

The year is starting off with a decidedly bluesy accent for Big Head Todd and the Monsters. The veteran group has stepped away from its usual program of doing original rock-oriented music to create a ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our rock critic Ken Tucker has been reading two unusual books about music history. Robert "Mack" McCormick's "Biography Of A Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey" is a ...

Time tends to reduce great artistry to caricature. Bob Dylan -- wasn't he a protest singer? The voice of a generation? The guy who provided the soundtrack for world peace and civil rights by writing ...

Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as a backwoods loner, his talent the result of selling his soul to the devil. Wrong and wrong again, according to Johnson's younger stepsister, who ...

The first published novel by Kalamu ya Salaam is cause for celebration. “Walkin’ Blues,” a speculative account of the life of Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson — one of the most lauded and ...

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Paramount has bought the pitch Love In Vain, an unconventional biopic centering around Blues music pioneer Robert Johnson. Peter Ramsey, after directing the ...

Annye Anderson, the stepsister of Robert Johnson, whose life became a founding myth of American music, has written a memoir about the real life... Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as ...