Demythologizing Robert Johnson: Chipping Away at the Myths That Encrust a Blues Legend
Tony Scherman, The New York Times, 20 September 1998
ALTHOUGH THE great blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson died 60 years ago, swallowed up at 27 by the rural Mississippi demiworld of juke joints and barrelhouses that spawned him, he looms ever larger in America's imagination.
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