Searching for Robert Johnson
The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers"
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The myth of Robert Johnson’s short life has often overshadowed his music. When he died in 1938 at the age of just twenty-seven, poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he’d been flirting with at a dance, Johnson had recorded only twenty-nine songs. But those songs would endure as musical touchstones for generations of blues performers. With fresh insights and new information gleaned since its original publication, this brief biographical exploration brilliantly examines both the myth and the music.
Much in the manner of his masterful biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick here gives readers an insightful, thought-provoking, and deeply felt picture, removing much of the obscurity that once surrounded Johnson without forfeiting any of the mystery. “I finished the book," declared the New York Times Book Review, "feeling that, if only for a brief moment, Robert Johnson had stepped out of the mists.”
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"Combines head and heart [and] seduces you with the flow of a sentence...With a thoroughness that belies his book's slender size, Guralnick traces Johnson's lineage in the history of the Delta blues."Village Voice
- On Sale
- Aug 25, 2020
- Page Count
- 96 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780316304375
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