Imagining Robert Johnson: A Fictional Account Of the Bluesman

Scores of books and articles attempt to capture the story of Robert Johnson. But so much of his life remains unknown. This small book tries to fill in those holes based on the spirit of his music. These three separate stories are a work of fiction inspired by his haunting and ambitious music. Given the environment of the 1930s Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson wrote and performed with bold, even reckless, confidence. Inside today's contemporary rock, pop, jazz and blues, you can trace the DNA of those genres back to the Delta bluesmen. If you listen hard enough, you can hear Mr. Johnson leaving a town, leaving a woman, waiting for his train, sitting against a tree strumming his guitar quietly. This small book is for those who hear that.This book is how one fan imagines the man's life.