Robert Johnson News

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.

Robert Leroy Johnson came into this world on May 8, 1911, near the town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and departed it just outside Greenwood, Mississippi, on August 16, 1938.

Do you have what it takes to be a Lebowski Achiever? If you've got $20 and nothing to do on Monday night, the answer is 'yes.' This year, the eighth annual Lebowski Fest abides in D.C. for an evening of White Russian-swilling, bathrobe-wearing, underachieving homage scored by the Black Diamond Heavies' self-described 'punk-ass blues' . The film ...

There's an old saying that goes "you've got to pay your dues to play the blues," but it's not entirely clear what those dues are.

Dallas' Hunter Hendrickson is brave. Here's a young guitar-slinging, bluesy-rock-singing newcomer who had the chutzpah to tackle "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day," a tune by late blues legend Robert Johnson.

Of course Mark Lawson is correct to point out how risible it can be to censor photographs of famous people holding cigarettes, such as Jacques Chirac, the composer Rachmaninov or the interviewer Lynn Barber but he surely underestimates the influence of role models on how people behave.

Michael Connor, theatre arts chair at Livingstone College is performing in the world premiere of "Cellphone Blues" at the Booth Playhouse in Charlotte.

Muddy Waters. Robert Johnson. Big Mama Thornton. These are a few of the names forever associated with the blues, that genuinely American musical form that was born among black slaves in the South, migrated to places like Chicago, New York and Memphis, and gradually evolved into rock and roll, country, jazz and other popular styles.

In the annals of rock history, there's been only one "supergroup" that did anything truly super, and that was the very first supergroup of all, the band that introduced the term into the rock lexicon, the Eric Clapton / Jack Bruce / Ginger Baker '60s power trio Cream .