ROCK AND ROLL NEWS

There is a bootleg album out which most definitely must be heard. It’s called The Blues Legend by Robert Johnson and so far as we know, it’s only available in Britain. Johnson, whose main influences were Son House and Willie Brown, stands at the crossroads of blues; he sums up the entire tradition of rural blues and gives impetus to the developing urban blues.

October 1, 1970

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