The legendary "King of the Delta Blues", Robert Johnson is one of the most
revered and mythologised musicians in rock history. Born in Hazelhurst,
Mississippi in 1911, Johnson was a freight-jumping, rambling, harmonica player
and bumbling guitarist until he disappeared for a short while and returned with
an incredible new guitar technique. The fable has it that Johnson went to the
crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in return for his new skills - and the
bluesman always played up to the image, creating the persona of a lonesome,
troubled drifter with "hellhounds on his trai...