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Robert Johnson is a man enveloped in myth: until 1973 no photograph of him was known to exist; a legend persists that his extraordinary guitar style that sounds like two men playing at once was obtained when he exchanged technique for his eternal damnation at a lonely crossroads; there is a theory that he was fatally poisoned aged 27 via by the husband of a lover…
Yet though his output was restricted to a small catalogue of low-selling recordings in the mid-1930s, the esteem in which Johnson’s music was held by a generation of musicians is built on something more than...
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