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 ...

He explained: “My grandfather, Robert Leroy Johnson is truly an American music legend. Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and The Rolling Stones — they will all tell you that Robert Johnson’s music ...

In the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou, Chris Thomas King plays Tommy Johnson, a young blues guitarist modeled on the real-life musician Robert Johnson. Though he plays his ...

The Robert Johnson legend goes that he gained his guitar ... The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate takes) show a musician who was technically and stylistically ahead of many of his peers.

Director Samantha Green and co-producer Antonio Tarrell gave remarks, and Robert Johnson’s grandson, Steven Johnson, performed live music. The short film dives into the rich history of the blues ...

Producers of the Robert Johnson biopic will include Jesse Collins and Dionne Harmon for Jesse Collins Entertainment (The New Edition Story), as well as Sophia Dilley (HBO’s Stax: Soulsville, USA ...

The biopic tells the story of famed blues musician and songwriter Robert Johnson, born in 1911 in Mississippi, a “dirt-poor, African American child who pursued his passion of music, partly as a ...