Blues musician Robert Johnson was honored Sunday. A free public screening of "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots and Living Legacy" took place at the Two Mississippi ...

Robert Johnson was born May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, raised in the fields and small towns of the Delta where the blues was beginning to take shape. His childhood was marked by constant ...

The Memphis Music Hall of Fame will officially welcome a new class of inductees on Sept. 25. The latest class is led by Stax Records hitmaker Johnnie Taylor, blues icon Robert Johnson, guitarist, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Robert Johnson’s music that grabs you by the soul and doesn’t let go. Maybe it’s the rasp in his voice, the haunted slide of his guitar, or the way his lyrics ...

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 ...

Take a look at Mississippi in 1936. That was the year that the state’s William Faulkner published one of his greatest novels, Absalom, Absalom! That was also the year that Mississippian Robert Johnson ...

Blues guitarist Rory Block did her homework before putting out her latest tribute album. Block was researching Robert Johnson for her 2006 release, "The Lady and Mr. Johnson," when she discovered he ...