Who is Robert Johnson, the Man who sold his soul to the devil? What would you sacrifice for greatness? For Robert Johnson, the answer was rumored to be his very soul. The blues legend, whose haunting ...

Blues musician Robert Johnson was honored Sunday. A free public screening of "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots and Living Legacy" took place at the Two Mississippi ...

IN Series, the Washington, D.C.–based opera-theater company known for its innovative and boundary-pushing productions, will ...

The first published novel by Kalamu ya Salaam is cause for celebration. “Walkin’ Blues,” a speculative account of the life of Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson — one of the most lauded and ...

Editor’s note: In the final paragraph of his August 25 story in Paste on the troubled folklorist Mack McCormick and his book about Robert Johnson, Geoffrey Himes wrote: “Now that the book and the ...

Legendary blues musician Robert Johnson’s life was all too short; unfortunately, the in-family fight over his estate continues with all eyes now on the Mississippi Supreme Court. The state’s highest ...

Between the time bluesman Tab Benoit released his first solo album, Nice and Warm, in 1992, until Medicine dropped in 2011, he kept his foot on the accelerator, putting out new collections of original ...

Blues music was born in the Mississippi River delta, a pivotal event in American music history. You can visit the place ...

Michael Christopher said 2Pac compared signing with Death Row Records to Robert Johnson’s crossroads deal in which he sold his soul.