Robert Johnson
American musician and songwriter
Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Wikipedia
Born: May 8, 1911, Hazlehurst, MS
Died: August 16, 1938 (age 27 years), Greenwood, MS
Parents: Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson
People also ask
What happened to Robert Johnson's guitar?
For the San Antonio sessions, Johnson's guitar was lost or broken during an arrest for vagrancy, and when he came to the studio to record, the studio obtained a guitar for him to use on the recordings.
What was Robert Johnson known for?
Robert Johnson (born c. 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, U.S.—died August 16, 1938, near Greenwood, Mississippi) was an American blues composer, guitarist, and singer whose eerie falsetto singing voice and masterful rhythmic slide guitar influenced both his contemporaries and many later blues and rock musicians.
Who was the blues player that sold his soul?
His playing was to die for—or at the very least, sell your soul to Satan for. Legend has it that Robert Johnson met the devil at a crossroads and gave him his soul in exchange for mastery of the guitar.
Who taught Robert Johnson to play guitar?
Alabama Bluesman Isaiah "Ike" Zimmerman
After making his home in Beauregard, Mississippi in the 1930s, he became a mentor to bluesman guitarist Robert Johnson.
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