Blues musician Robert Johnson was honored Sunday. A free public screening of "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots and Living Legacy" took place at the Two Mississippi ...

Because blues music is so old and dates back even before vinyl records and other recording means, there remains a significant amount of mystery regarding its early years. Born in the American South ...

Take a look at Mississippi in 1936. That was the year that the state’s William Faulkner published one of his greatest novels, Absalom, Absalom! That was also the year that Mississippian Robert Johnson ...

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music. This is FRESH AIR.

A new Robert Johnson biography and a box set of previously unheard field recordings are among the first releases the Smithsonian and Folkways are planning from the collection of storied folklorist ...

The long-awaited “Biography of a Phantom” unravels some of the mystery and intrigue Alicia Ault - Museums Correspondent Now available is the Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by ...