On the list is undoubtedly the King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson. The singer only recorded 29 songs during his life, ...

Vol.I: Crossroads Blues; Terraplane Blues; Come on in my Kitchen; Walking Blues; Last Fair Deal Gone Down; 32-20 Blues; Kindhearted Woman Blues; If I Had a Possession Over Judgement Day; Preaching ...

King and Eric Clapton and it encompases ... The most famous of the Delta Blues singer-guitarists are Robert Johnson, Son House and Skip James. These men played unamplified steel string guitar ...

Seven months is all Robert Johnson needed. Two sessions. Twenty-nine songs. In unquestionably the shortest run to become a ...

The Mississippi Delta ... of the Delta Blues style. Listen for the percussive style of slide guitar in Bukka White's "Panama Limited" and the emotive vocalizations in Robert Johnson's "Cross ...

Chris Thomas King plays Tommy Johnson, a young blues guitarist modeled on the real-life musician Robert Johnson. Though he ...

Clarksdale, Mississippi, is where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil and where the first juke joints started playing a new kind of American music—the Delta Blues ...

Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues singers, was an average bluesman until, as legend records, he sold his soul to the Devil at a crossroads. Johnson later dies in mysterious circumstances.

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues ... Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Enduring legends took hold, none more potent than the myth that Delta bluesman Robert ...