Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Johnson book — Biography of a Phantom — will be released on April 4, with the new box set titled Playing for the Man at the ...

In the popular press, almost no music writing is about music. Instead, it’s about the musician, and for good reason: knowing about Mozart’s early death, Beethoven’s deafness or Dylan’s motorcycle ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New details will be revealed about the life and circumstances of one of the most mysterious figures in American music next month, according to an announcement made by the ...

The long-awaited “Biography of a Phantom” unravels some of the mystery and intrigue Alicia Ault - Museums Correspondent Now available is the Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by ...

Editor’s note: In the final paragraph of his August 25 story in Paste on the troubled folklorist Mack McCormick and his book about Robert Johnson, Geoffrey Himes wrote: “Now that the book and the ...

A new Robert Johnson biography and a box set of previously unheard field recordings are among the first releases the Smithsonian and Folkways are planning from the collection of storied folklorist ...