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Robert Johnson

Guitarist (8-May-1911 — 16-Aug-1938)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS


Samuel Barclay Charters. Robert Johnson. Oak Publications. 1973. 87pp.

Alan Greenberg. Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson. Doubleday. 1983. 252pp.

Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers". Plume. 1998. 96pp.

Barry Lee Pearson; Bill McCulloch. Robert Johnson: Lost and Found. University of Illinois Press. 2003. 142pp.

Patricia R. Schroeder. Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture. University of Illinois Press. 2004. 192pp.

Elijah Wald. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. New York: Amistad. 2004. 342pp.


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  1. NNDB [link]

  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

  3. Internet Movie Database [link]

  4. Wikipedia [link]

  5. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

  6. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.378)

  7. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.2, p.557)




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