27: Robert Johnson (2013)
“In terms of contemporary culture, he is also the first on the list of immensely influential young men and women apparently fated to die at the age of twenty-seven following a ferocious flourish of talent. However, Robert Johnson was murdered; with the possible, and unlikely, exception of Rolling Stone Brian Jones, the only one on this eminent list to meet such a tragic end.
The shadowy nature of his passing, by poisoning, intertwined with the suggestion that he sold his soul to the Devil in... exchange for his talent, has only added to his mystique as a dark figure – like a character from some Mississippi-set Jacobean tragedy reworked by Tennessee Williams. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. ‘Robert was one of those fellows who was warm in every respect,’ said his friend Johnny Shines,[1] ‘Robert was a fellow very well liked by women and men, even though a lot of men resented his power or his influence over women-people. They resented that very much, but, as a human being, they still liked him because they couldn’t help but like him, for Robert just had that power to draw.’ So celebrated is his legend that in 1994 Robert Johnson’s image appeared on the 29 cent US postage stamp, recognition of his more distinguished role as a black archetype of modern American mythology; a seemingly indispensible character onto whom since the early 1960s have been projected the dreams, fantasies, and aspirations of a myriad of largely white blues fans.MoreLess
The shadowy nature of his passing, by poisoning, intertwined with the suggestion that he sold his soul to the Devil in... exchange for his talent, has only added to his mystique as a dark figure – like a character from some Mississippi-set Jacobean tragedy reworked by Tennessee Williams. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. ‘Robert was one of those fellows who was warm in every respect,’ said his friend Johnny Shines,[1] ‘Robert was a fellow very well liked by women and men, even though a lot of men resented his power or his influence over women-people. They resented that very much, but, as a human being, they still liked him because they couldn’t help but like him, for Robert just had that power to draw.’ So celebrated is his legend that in 1994 Robert Johnson’s image appeared on the 29 cent US postage stamp, recognition of his more distinguished role as a black archetype of modern American mythology; a seemingly indispensible character onto whom since the early 1960s have been projected the dreams, fantasies, and aspirations of a myriad of largely white blues fans.MoreLess
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