
The Devil Had Nothing to Do With It
“Robert Johnson was one of the most inventive geniuses of all time,” wrote Bob Dylan. “We still haven’t caught up with him.”
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
by Annye C. Anderson with Preston Lauterbach, and with a foreword by Elijah Wald
Love in Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911–1938
by Mezzo and J.M. Dupont, translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger
December 3, 2020 issue