| Birth: | May 8, 1911 | | Death: | Aug. 16, 1938 | 
Pioneer Blues Singer, Guitarist. Born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, he is regarded as the absolute father of modern blues and the most influential bluesman of all time. He began playing guitar as a teenager traveling throughout the South gaining popularity playing in small clubs, juke joints and gatherings. According to a legend known to Blues fans, he took his guitar to a crossroads near Dockery's plantation in Mississippi and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for everlasting mastery of the guitar as the king of the Delta blues. By the middle 1930s, he was revered as the top Delta musician, was signed to Vocalion Records and recorded "Terraplane Blues," a best selling hit in 1936. A total of eleven 78 rpm albums with 29 compositions were recorded and only 42 recordings are all that remain to this day. Among these recordings are "Stones in My Passway", Me and the Devil", "Sweet Home Chicago", "Cross Road Blues", "Hell Bound On My Trail" and "Milkcow's Calf Blues". There are a number of accounts and theories regarding to Johnson's death with most claiming he was allegedly poisoned from whiskey laced with strychnine. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame (1980), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), Mississippi Blues Musician Hall of Fame (2000) and in 2006, he posthumously received the Gammy Lifetime Achievement Award. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Search Amazon for Robert Johnson | | | Burial:
Little Zion Cemetery
Leflore County
Mississippi, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Doug Wilhite
Record added: Dec 31, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 6058394 |
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God bless you today and always. Rest in Peace.
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Thelma
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You didn't get to live long but you sure left a legacy behind and we're still listening to you!
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Elizabeth
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nevermore
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