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Robert Johnson
Hazlehurst, Mississippi, USA
Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwritin…
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Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues 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 Faustian myth says that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads of Mississippi highways to achieve success.
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2018
Flamboyante
Movie Music
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2017
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2009
Me and the Devil Blues
Movie
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2004
The Story Of The Blues
Movie Self
- 2000
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1980
L.A.X.
Movie Music
