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Studio portrait (ca. 1935), one of only two or three verified photographs of Johnson Background information Birth name Robert Leroy Johnson Born ( 1911-05-08)May 8, 1911, U.S. Died August 16, 1938 ( 1938-08-16) (aged 27), U.S. Genres Occupation(s) Musician, singer, songwriter Instruments Guitar, vocals, harmonica Years active 1929–1938 Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy and poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend.
One says that he sold his soul to the devil at a of Mississippi highways to achieve success. As an performer who played mostly on street corners, in, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson had little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime. After the reissue of his recordings in 1961, on the LP, his work reached a wider audience. Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Mississippi style. He is credited by many rock musicians as an important influence; the blues and rock musician has called Johnson 'the most important blues singer that ever lived.' Johnson was inducted into the in its first induction ceremony, in 1986, as an early influence on rock and roll. In 2003, ranked Johnson fifth in magazine's '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'.
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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Life and career [ ] Early life [ ] Johnson was born in, possibly on May 8, 1911, to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children. Charles Dodds had been forced by a mob to leave Hazlehurst following a dispute with white landowners. Julia left Hazlehurst with baby Robert but after two years sent the boy to Memphis to live with her husband, who had changed his name to Charles Spencer. About 1919, Robert rejoined his mother in the Mississippi Delta area around Tunica and. Julia's new husband, known as Dusty Willis, was 24 years her junior. Robert was remembered by some residents as 'Little Robert Dusty', but he was registered at Tunica's Indian Creek School as Robert Spencer.
In the 1920 census he is listed as Robert Spencer, living in Lucas, Arkansas, with Will and Julia Willis. Robert was at school in 1924 and 1927.
The quality of his signature on his marriage certificate suggests that he was relatively well educated for a boy of his background. A school friend, Willie Coffee, who was interviewed and filmed in later life, recalled that as a youth Robert was already noted for playing the harmonica and. Coffee recalled that Robert was absent for long periods, which suggests that he may have been living and studying in Memphis. After school, Robert adopted the surname of his natural father, signing himself as Robert Johnson on the certificate of his marriage to sixteen-year-old Virginia Travis in February 1929. Adobe Flash Cs2 Professional Free Download. She died in childbirth shortly after.