Robert Johnson Lost and Found

Name: Robert Johnson Lost and Found
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ISBN: 9780252075285

ISBN-10: 0252075285

ISBN-13: 9780252075285

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barry Lee Pearson, Bill McCulloch

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With just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a giant in the history of blues music. Johnson's vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, has allowed speculation and myths to obscure the facts of his life. The most famous of these legends depicts a young Johnson meeting the Devil at a dusty Mississippi crossroads at midnight and selling his soul in exchange for prodigious guitar skills. In this volume, Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch examine the full range of writings about Johnson and sift fact from fiction. They compare conflicting accounts of Johnson's life, weighing them against…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Making of a Paper Trail



Our Hero



The Anecdotes



Early Notices



The Reissue Project, Phase One



Reissue, Phase Two



Myth Eclipses Reality



Reissue, Phase Three; or, Fifteen Minutes of Fame



A Myth to the Twenty-first Century



Satan and Sorcery



The Song Texts



A House of Cards



Who Was He, Really?


Notes


Bibliography


Index