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A look at the life and music of Robert Johnson and his contributions to the blues describes his obscurity during his own life, his innovative influence on American popular music, and how the history of blues music was shaped by white fans.
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9780060524234 | Har/com edition (Amistad Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A look at the life and music of Robert Johnson and his contributions to the blues describes his obscurity during his own life, his innovative influence on American popular music, and how the history of blues music was shaped by white fans.

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9780060524272 | Amistad Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A close-up look at the life and music of Robert Johnson and his contributions to the evolution of blues music describes his obscurity during his own life, his innovative influence on American popular music, and how the history of blues music was shaped and transformed by white fans with different tastes and standards, in a biography complemented by a music CD.

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9780062018441 | Harpercollins, August 17, 2010, cover price $10.99

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Product Description: The result of careful research, this stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi...read more
By Steve Lavere (foreword by)
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9780981600215 | Independent Pub Group, October 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The result of careful research, this stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend.

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Product Description: With just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a giant in the history of blues music. Johnson's vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, has allowed speculation and myths to obscure the facts of his life...read more
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9780252028359 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a giant in the history of blues music.

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9780252075285 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 18, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: With just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a giant in the history of blues music.

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9781568461465 | Creative Co, September 1, 2006, cover price $20.01

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A detailed biography of the Mississippi blues musician describes the life and legend of Robert Johnson, from his rise from the Mississippi Delta region during the Depression, to the evolution of his influential musical style, to his mysterious death, to his seminal impact on later musicians.
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9780862417659 | Canongate Books Ltd, June 30, 2006, cover price $21.00
9780802116932 | Grove Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the Mississippi blues musician describes the life and legend of Robert Johnson, from his rise from the Mississippi Delta region during the Depression, to the evolution of his influential musical style, to his mysterious death, to his seminal impact on later musicians.

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Accompanied by a compact disc of rare recordings, a collection of essays, studded with engaging anecdotes, painstakingly reconstructs the obscure history of the pre-World War II, mostly black, Southern blues musicians who defined the genre. Original. Tour. IP. (view table of contents)
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9780879305529 | Pap/com edition (Backbeat Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s

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Celebrates the life of one of American music's most influential blues guitarists while providing informative facts about Robert Johnson's life, music, and untimely death in 1938. Reprint.
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9780525248019 | Obelisk, September 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Explores the life and legend of blues singer Robert Johnson, whose music influenced Muddy Waters and an entire generation of rock 'n' roll artists

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9780452279490 | Reprint edition (Plume, August 1, 1998), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Explores the life and legend of blues singer Robert Johnson, whose music influenced Muddy Waters and an entire generation of rock 'n' roll artists

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9780961861001 | Rock Chapel Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: One of America’s most respected authorities on the blues has delved deeply into the recorded legacy of Robert Johnson, transcribing each of his songs with dedicated accuracy and distilling the meaning of every sound and phrase. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780825600593 | Music Sales Corp, June 1, 1979, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: One of America’s most respected authorities on the blues has delved deeply into the recorded legacy of Robert Johnson, transcribing each of his songs with dedicated accuracy and distilling the meaning of every sound and phrase.

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