Dig deeper into the Delta blues with these documentaries about legendary musicians Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Howlin' ...

Sammie's character in Sinners is heavily inspired by legendary musician Robert Johnson, with both of them living lives that share many similarities.

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 ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story of struggle and talent, particularly the myth of a deal with the devil at a crossroads, continues to inspire. His profound influence on ...

Mississippi-born Robert Johnson is known as the King of the Delta Blues. Legend has it that he was a decent musician until he met the Devil at the Crossroads and sold his soul. After that ...

Delta blues music, a style born in the Mississippi ... Pioneering artists like Charley Patton, Son House, and Robert Johnson, who were active or influential during the 1930s setting of the film ...

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 ...