Robert Johnson News

Walking into the Burlington club Nectar's on a Tuesday night is like walking into a time warp.

He was just a kid when he sang his way out of the streets of the Bronx and punched his ticket to fame with "A Teenager in Love" and "Where or When," which were among the iconic songs that earned Dion DiMucci a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Acoustic blues and slide guitar fans will have a feast set before them Friday and Saturday, Nov.

On Thursday, the owners of 508 Park Avenue will ask the City Plan Commission for permission to demolish the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Charlie Parker once recorded.

Paul Pigat's just landed a great new job. Basically, he gets paid to fly from town to town and talk about guitars, and the rockabilly singer, jazz enthusiast, and Cousin Harley frontman couldn't be happier, for talking about guitars is something he'd happily do for free.

The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson's life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.

The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson's life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.

HUBERT SUMLIN is a national treasure. Not just because he played with Howlin' Wolf for almost 25 years, including on what is to my mind the best blues record ever made, 1962's Howlin' Wolf .

The Art School of Conway student Chloe Moorehead received recognition for her painting, a oeDelta Bluesa - a collage celebrating such legendary blues musicians as Robert Johnson at the Blues Heritage Youth Art Competition.

Holger Petersen credits CkUa with putting him on the path to his life's passion--being an ambassador for the blues.

Guitarist/vocalist Keb' Mo' draws heavily on the old-fashioned country blues style of Robert Johnson while keeping his sound contemporary with touches of soul and folksy storytelling.

"We will ideally be knocking patrons unconscious and stacking their out-cold bodies up like cord wood ... and then spray-painting them bright-orange," claims Ted Drozdowski, the notorious bandleader and slide guitarist of Nashville blues-rock act Scissormen, speaking of his upcoming show at the Sullivan's Island Home Team BBQ.

When you walk the streets of Clarksdale, Mississippi, you can still hear the voice of blues legend Robert Johnson - ringing from the shop windows as well as from passing cars.

Part of the evolution of blues music traces back to early days on the Mississippi Delta and to visions - perhaps both imagined and real - of musicians like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters sitting on rickety old porches, singing about love and loss and the struggles of black society in pre-civil rights America.

On Sunday night at Jefferson Center, about midway through his set, Robert Cray picked out a familiar country-blues melody -- Robert Johnson 's "Come On In My Kitchen." At least, that's what I was hearing, because I'm a big Johnson fan.

Strictly speaking, Bob Dylan is singing about Jesus again. But "Christmas in the Heart," the enigmatic one's first-ever holiday-themed release, is less a reprise of Mr.

Many years ago, in a cool but crowded Los Angeles nightclub, The Roxy on the Sunset Strip, I saw the dapper and dashing B.B. King do a phenomenal set of blues.

Chicago blues guitarist Keith Scott continues his latest foray into Montana tonight and Saturday at Izaak's in Craig.

In 2004, music writer Elijah Wald released Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues , which trenchantly revised decades of mythology masquerading as history.

N ow in its third year, the ELLA Music Fest continues to shine a light on the talents and lifestyle issues of women, but the event itself is actually the brainchild of three dudes.