Attorneys litigated Claud Johnson's case for 8 years. Contract called for 40 percent of royalties be paid to law firm. Family says Claud Johnson didn't know what he was signing. Legend has it he sold ...

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.

Eric Clapton once wrote that Robert Johnson's best songs have "never been covered by anyone else, at least not very successfully -- because how are you going to do them?" Now the rock guitarist has ...

Without a doubt, when it comes to blues music and its legacy,guitarist Robert Johnson is its preeminent performer and a key figure. For many, he is the greatest blues man of all time, certainly the ...

His 1967 song "Different Strokes" became one of the most sampled in hip hop music. By The Associated Press Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop ...

Tera Johnson-Collins, the paternal niece of blues icon Tommy Johnson, says that she has always felt a spiritual connection to her famous family member, who died on Nov. 1, 1956—three years to the day ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our rock critic Ken Tucker has been reading two unusual books about music history. Robert "Mack" McCormick's "Biography Of A Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey" is a ...

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