How The Man Who Gave Us All The Blues Created A Cultural Industry

It all began almost 100 years ago!

If you trace whatever style of popular modern music you hear or listen to, all the way back to its roots, you will end up at the name of one man. This was a man who lived far too short a life, but a man who left a legacy that reverberated, and continues to do so, throughout the last almost 100 years.

Born in 1911 (or possibly 1912) Robert Leroy Johnson lead the life of a travelling musical performer and on his way around the Mississipi…