This video unpacks the enduring legend of making a pact with the devil at a crossroads—most famously tied to blues musician Robert Johnson. Blending folklore, musical history, and cultural symbolism, ...

Robert Johnson ‘s music was a rent in that reality, a violent rip, a negation, a no. I suddenly realized that I was sick of rock ’n’ roll; sick, after Altamont, of what it could do and what ...

Robert Johnson might the be the most effective musician in history. He died at 27 and only had 29 known recordings (16 of them produced in San Antonio); his music wasn’t widely played during his ...

For me, revisiting these songs in 2025 is a reminder that some voices never go silent. Johnson might’ve recorded nearly a century ago, but the emotional truth in his music is as alive as ever ...

Robert Johnson went Hazelhurst in search of his biological father, the grandson relates. Along the way, he ran into Ike Zimmerman, a blues player who took him in as family and taught him ...

It is only now, eight years after McCormick’s death in 2015, that part of his manuscript has been published by Smithsonian Books as Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey.