Robert Johnson
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Fatten Your Chops With Double-Stops in the Style of Blues Legends Like B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins and Robert Johnson
By Guitar Player Staff published
These essential phrases will help you speak the language of blues guitar
Watch Led Zeppelin’s Mississippi Delta-Inspired “Travelling Riverside Blues” Video
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Video Jimmy Page pays tribute to blues guitar hero Robert Johnson in this 1969 BBC recording
“In the Canon of the Blues, His Songs Are Really Top of the Heap”: Walter Trout Explains Why Robert Johnson Is Considered in a League of His Own
By Guitar Player Staff published
Covered by the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson’s originals are the ground zero of recorded Delta blues
“Keep Going Until Everybody Knows Who You Are”: Rory Block Talks the Blues
By Jimmy Leslie published
Koko Taylor's “Little Miss Dynamite” gives blues women their due on new album ‘Ain’t Nobody Worried,’ with acoustic covers of Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Elizabeth Cotten and more
Rory Gallagher’s School of Blues
By Rod Brakes, Stefan Grossman published
This archive gem could be the best free guitar lesson you’ve ever had.
“His Storytelling Was as Brilliant as His Guitar Playing”: How the Spirit of Skip James is Felt Stronger than Ever Today in Bentonia Blues
By Jim Beaugez published
Washed up at age 30, the legendary bluesman was rediscovered in 1964, just five years before his death.
From Satan to Jesus, Skip James Played Through Shadow and Light on These Five Essential Tracks
By Jim Beaugez published
Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson may have sung about having a hellhound on his trail, but Skip James sounded like the one on the run.
Watch John Lee Hooker Bringing the Blues to London in 1964
By Jas Obrecht published
Video This historic BBC performance of “Boom Boom” helped turn a whole generation on to the blues.
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