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Zimmerman himself never made any recordings, though he performed widely in Mississippi. He gave up playing blues music, probably in the 1950s, and became a Pentecostal minister. He moved to California around 1960, and died in Compton, Los Angeles, from a heart attack in 1967, aged 60. [1]
86 years after the legendary bluesman died at the age of 27, his legend is still one of the most powerful in music – but his real life was marked by darkness and tragedy. One of the three existing images of Robert Johnson. Image: Hachette Book Group.
Realism and fact in Up Jumped the Devil finally expose his humanity and identity, and allows us to see the ultimate absurdity of the fiction that has surrounded this artist who died so young. Millions of his records have sold worldwide, partly because of his astonishing musicality.
- Robert Johnson: The Man Before The Myth
- Robert Johnson, King of The Delta Blues
- Did Robert Johnson Really Sell His Soul to The Devil?
- A Legacy That Has Stood The Test of Time
Not much is known about Robert Johnson’s early life, though some facts have come to surface in recent years. We know now that he was born Robert Leroy Johnson in Hazlehurst, Mississippi sometime in May 1911. He was born out of wedlock after his mother, Julia Major Dodds, had an affair with a field hand named Noah Johnson. Julia’s husband, a success...
At age 19, Robert Johnson performed on street corners here and there, but he was nowhere near an exceptional musician. Yet he was self-assured and took any chance he could get to perform. During Son House’s and Willie Brown’s shows in Robinsonville, Johnson would take one of their guitars during intermission and force the audience to listen to his ...
As the legend goes, after a teenage Robert Johnson was booed off the stage in Robinsonville, he went to a Mississippi crossroad at midnight and summoned the devil. The devil promised to endow him with supernatural musical abilities — as long as the musician gave up his soul in return. Historical records show that he actually learned how to play fro...
Robert Johnson mysteriously died in Greenwood, Mississippi on August 16, 1938, but his death certificate didn’t list a cause. What — or who — killed Johnson is still the subject of wide speculation. Many believe that the jealous husband of a woman he was having an affair with poisoned Johnson’s whiskey. Decades after he died, someone checked the ba...
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And he spent those years back in his hometown of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, learning at the feet of guitar great Ike Zimmerman. Robert had returned to Hazelhurst looking for his biological father, Noah Johnson, but found Zimmerman instead.
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- The crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 is where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil in return for musical genius.
- The club owners tossed Johnson out of the Robinsonville juke joint and that was the last that anybody heard of him for a full year. Johnson simply...
- No, Robert Johnson died at the age of 27 in 1938.
- Yes. Whether or not the legend is true, eager tourists flock to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to have their photos taken at the crossroads of Highway 61...
- Of the 29 songs Johnson recorded before his untimely death at only 27 years old, there were "Cross Road Blues," "Hellhound on My Trail," "Me and th...
The reality of that year he disappeared was that he went to an area near his birth place where some believed he was searching for his father, but while there he was taught guitar by Isaiah "Ike" Zimmerman.
Oct 4, 2023 · Ike Zimmerman lived until 1967 and passed away at the age of sixty from a heart attack.
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