Browsing: Robert Johnson

This Week in Blues Past has two of the biggest landmarks in blues…

This Week in Blues Past has some HUGE landmarks involving a handful of the BIGGEST names in the blues!

This is the latest installment of our weekly series, The Language of the Blues, in which author/rocker Debra Devi explores…

Foot track magic is a hoodoo practice, and was talked about by Robert Johnson

Sweeping the house after dark is still considered impolite in some African American families. This tradition comes from an ancient West African belief…

Find out what Robert Johnson and Skip James were talking about when they described being “dry so long”!

The Southern slang term “doney” is rarely heard anymore, but when it is, it’s usually as part of the phrase “no-good doney”…

Secret document reveals exciting music icons as the subject of stamps in coming years.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday on a powerful fight over the only two known photographs of Robert Johnson

The devil has many names down South, some derived from the Christianization among African slaves of West African trickster deities… Learn all about “Devil” in blues language!