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The Father Of Rock ’n’ Roll

April 2023
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For thirty years the musical historian Samuel Charters has pursued the ghostly figure of Robert Johnson across the flat Mississippi Delta country, seeking the source of a handful of scary, passionate, compelling songs. Those songs have nourished rock music from the very start; this spring a reissue of Johnson’s recordings sold well over 350,000 copies and won their author a Grammy more than half a century after he was murdered.

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