Robert Johnson
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![CIRCA 1968: B.B. King performs live onstage with Gibson ES-355 semi-hollow electric guitar](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6TcEGpjLE8LRXveWnHh9zK-320-80.jpg)
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
![Jimmy Page performs live on stage playing a Gibson Les Paul guitar during a concert by English rock band Led Zeppelin on the third of three nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City on 29th July 1973. The concert movie 'The Song Remains the Same' was filmed over the three nights from 27th to 29th July at the venue.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3nF6hCt5cUF8FTcR7S446o-320-80.jpg)
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
![Robert Johnson and Gibson L-1](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XLv5J2YQqyN2v3z5UmDMgB-320-80.jpg)
“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
![Del Rey](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EKoakj9MFLg7fE9yJ8CsPR-320-80.jpg)
“How can you make a cult figure of Robert Johnson, who recorded 30 Sides, and ignore Memphis Minnie, who recorded 200?” Del Rey speaks up about female guitar History
By Sue Foley published
“Girls are just empowered to do whatever they want to do now… It’s a good thing,” says the blues virtuoso
![Blues artist Rory Block](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qgfFmrMCbSmgDiN6FDdRBo-320-80.jpg)
“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, 1973](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tasYhVvx3Qu5sbkkBkqRUA-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Skip James at Newport Folk Festival 26th July 1964.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w7VfVKjhq3DK3C3zX6L8jb-320-80.jpg)
“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.
![Skip James, 1967](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fQWXtTGzHPnwt6KGGtnM2X-320-80.jpg)
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.
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