Guitar Player

ROBERT JOHNSON

guitar technique is the stuff of legend, and his haunting vocal delivery was once described by Eric Clapton as “the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice.” “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom,” “Sweet Home Chicago,” “Terraplane Blues,” “Love in, the ground zero of recorded Delta blues.

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