An essential story of blues lore, black culture, and American music history
Robert
Johnson’s recordings, made in 1936 and 1937, have profoundly influenced
generations of singers, guitarists, and songwriters. Yet until now, his
short life—he was murdered at the age of 27—has been poorly documented.
Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Johnson since
the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson’s death
certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson’s life
and music in 1970 and made it his mission to fill in what was still
unknown about him. In this definitive biography, the two authors relied
on every interview, resource, and document, much of it material no one has seen before.
This is the first book about Johnson that documents his lifelong
relationship with family and friends in Memphis, details his trip to New
York, uncovers where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact
this had on him, fully portrays the other women Johnson was involved
with and tells exactly how and why he died and who gave him the poison
that killed him.
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Thanks for this. I'd heard about this book but didn't have a copy until today.
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