After debuting at film festivals in 2024, “James ‘Super Chikan’ Johnson: A Life in Blues” is now available on streaming ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

It’s a classic kind of Delta blues idea. It was — what was the ... because I can’t think about what it is now… Robert Johnson’s “Me and the Devil,” that was the name of the song ...

In the spirit of the film’s transcendental handling of time, in which past, present and future bleed together, Jedidiah’s warning to Sammie is an allusion to Robert Johnson, a Delta Blues ...

Robert Johnson influenced everyone ... One of the earliest accounts of Johnson as a musician comes from Delta blues pioneer Son House, who first encountered the young artist around 1930 in ...

Robert Mugge has produced and directed documentary feature films about bluegrass and zydeco and reggae; about New Orleans musicians, in exile from Hurricane Katrina; about Hawaiian dance; about the ...

It was here, 90 miles north of Bentonia, that a handful of sharecroppers—Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf, among them—pioneered the art form. Delta blues is widely considered ...

Let’s just say Coogler flirts with the mythology of blues without actually showing us the world’s first rock star Robert Johnson selling ... cameo from a blues icon. It’s all a bit balmy ...