Robert Johnson

• ".32-20 Blues"
• "Come on in My Kitchen" [two versions]
• "Cross Road Blues" [two versions]
• "Dead Shrimp Blues"
• "Drunken Hearted Man" [two versions]
• "From Four Till Late"
• "Hellhound on My Trail"
• "Honeymoon Blues"
• "I'm a Steady Rollin' Man"
• "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom"
• "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day"
• "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" [two versions]
• "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"
• "Little Queen of Spades" [two versions]
• "Love in Vain" [two versions]
• "Malted Milk"
• "Me and the Devil Blues" [two versions]
• "Milk Cow's Calf Blues" [two versions]
• "Phonograph Blues" [two versions]
• "Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)"
• "Rambling on My Mind" [two versions]
• "Stones in My Passway"
• "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" [two versions]
• "Sweet Home Chicago"
• "Terraplane Blues"
• "They're Red Hot"
• "Traveling Riverside Blues" [two versions]
• "Walkin' Blues"
• "When You Got a Good Friend" [two versions]

Books about Robert Johnson

• Blues World - Booklet No.1 - Robert Johnson - Four Editions, First published 1967
• Booklet accompanying the Complete Recordings box set, Stephen LaVere, Sony Music Entertainment, 1990
• Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson, Alan Greenberg, Stanley Crouch, Martin Scorsese, 1994, ISBN 030680557X
• Searching for Robert Johnson, Peter Guralnick , 1998, ISBN 0452279496
• Robert Johnson: Lost and Found, Barry Lee Pearson, Bill McCulloch, 2003, ISBN 025202835X
• Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, Elijah Wald, 2004, ISBN 0060524235
• Hellhound on My Trail: The Life of Robert Johnson, Bluesman Extraordinaire, Robert Wolf, 2004, ISBN 1568461461
• Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture, Patricia R. Schroeder, 2004, ISBN 0252029151

Films about Robert Johnson

• Crossroads, 1986 (loosely based on the theme of a blues artist selling his soul to the devil)
• The Search for Robert Johnson, 1992
• Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life and Music of Robert Johnson, 1997
• Hellhounds On My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson (2000). Directed by Robert Mugge.

Other

• "Back to the Crossroads: The Roots of Robert Johnson," a CD from Yazoo records, includes many of the records Johnson himself heard and learned from.
• Currently, a manga running in the Japanese magazine Afternoon called 俺と悪魔ブルーズ(Me and the Devil Blues) is clearly influenced by events of Johnson's life, and the protagonist is named "RJ". However, it is not attempting to be a biography.

• The Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou? contains a character named Tommy Johnson who co-opts the appearance of Robert Johnson in the iconic Studio Portrait photograph and their parallel devil story, while performing the music of their contemporary Skip James.
• The Sherman Alexie novel "Reservation Blues" has a fictional account of Robert Johnson faking his death and hiding out on an Indian reservation.
• The webcomic Achewood has portrayed Robert Johnson as a resident of Hell, performing nightly in the Brookside Lounge of Hell's Best Western, despite its being closed. [link]

External links

• [The Official Robert Johnson Website]
• [The Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery (dedicated to the Life and Music of Robert Johnson)]
• [Website] at the University of Virginia
• [Currently available recordings]
• ['Trail of the Hellhound' website] by the National Park Service
• [Use of microtones in the vocals of Robert Johnson]
• [Site for "Escaping the Delta," with links to related material]
• [Delta Guitar Player Robert Johnson]
• [Robert Johnson at Find-A-Grave]
• [Video profile on Robert Johnson, a member of the Club of 27 - music artists who died at the age of 27]

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