In 1938, with the blues musician Johnny Shines, he traversed most of the eastern part of the country, playing from St. He recorded twenty-nine of his own songs for the Vocalion label in San Antonio in 1936 and in Dallas in 1937. The blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in 1911, grew up in Memphis, and was fatally poisoned by a jealous husband during a performance at a juke joint near Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1938. It seems to me that the country is at a crossroad, whether we are going to continue to invest and double down on the ugliness of our racist commitments, or finally leave this behind. You know, Robert Johnson found his sound at the crossroad when he made a deal with the devil.
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