Robert Johnson #1257

Caption from poster__     Robert Johnson     Robert Johnson is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the blues. Although  he only recorded 29 songs in his career,  he influenced not only the blues musicians of the generations that followed him, but rock musicians from the Rolling Stones to Eric Clapton, who feels that "Robert Johnson is the most important blues musician who ever lived. I have never found anything more  deeply soulful. His music remains the most  powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice. " Rock critic Dave Marsh  believes "Johnson's salty sexuality and  sense of fear and disaster are a crucial  part of vocal black music's heritage, up to and including today's rap and hip-hop."  Robert Johnson “ King of the Delta Blues Singers.”       In Robert Johnson's short and colorful life, he recorded several of the Blues songs which have made him famous. Fortunately, these recordings survive today, and allow us to discuss t