Steven Johnson, grandson of the late blues legend Robert Johnson explains his experiences with the amazing family legacy he was born into and talks about The Robert Johnson Foundation, and the fact that blues is not a tool of the devil, but a wonderful art given from god. Show your support for The Robert Johnson Foundation by coming to The Robert Johnson Birthday Celebration Festival! It is being heald in Crystal Springs Mississippi on May 9th, 2009! Help teach the next generation, and support the foundation directly! National acts to be listed soon.
Robert Johnson – my grandad the legend.
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Your grandad’s legacy will never be forgotten. Robert Johnson was the lord of the blues. Period.
LOVE THIS.
Jeez, he needs to cut down on the KFC
i thought Roberts child was stillborn, and his wife died during birth…. but hey there are alot of stories;D
@dragns Little child, I know it hurts to be young…, but you need to grow up and grow a beard and some balls, because that comment stinks vagina.
LISTEN TO THE SPARSE DEEP BLUES AND THE LYRICS THAT CAN ONLY COME FROM KNOWING…THIS AFTERNOON I’M GOING TO THE FARMERS MARKET TO PLAY THE BLUES AND WHEN I GET BACK I’LL THANK GOD FOR MY GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING OF BLUES MUSIC,AND MY ABILITY TO EXPRESS IT TO OTHERS…YEAH! CARLOS GUITARLOS
@dragns wow…how disrespectful and ignorant you are…it is sad to see how ignorant some people can be these days…
there’s a song called PK BLUES,preacher kid blues.check it out .dont know who wrote it or anyone who sang it,but i have hear it
his sperm must cost about 1 000 000 $
When house said records he could have meant money, cause the grandparents did take money when he offered. Perhaps he offered records but they refused for that reason
Well if they didnt get Dna, they really should. People are forgetting they wasnt just going on the old Ladys testimony, but also video of clauds mother, and a birth certificate, and it was being based upon what son house revealed in interviews about johnson handing out records to his love children
The Robert Johnson Foundation cannot even use these pictures unless they want to pay this individual thousands of dollars for COPIES of the original pictures he does not even have the proper rights to. There are other pictures that are owned that have never been published as he didn’t get his hands on those and they are locked up in a vault.
Two of the pictures owned by Robert Johnson’s sister were copied by an individual who promised to split the proceeds of Mr. Johnson’s image used commercially and never paid the family members who owned them any compensation despite a contract. Since the family did not hear from this man and was never paid, the family rescinded the contract and this man continues to use COPIES of the originals on record covers, posters, and media, He was never heard from again by the family, What a theif.
The judge in that case opted to believe the testimony of an 88 year old woman who was a groupie at the time going to see blues musicians at juke joints. This woman claimedto have seen Robert Johnson and Claud Johnson’s mother standing up against a tree kissing and heavy petting! In this day and age, with the availability of DNA testing that enables other relatives to give DNA, a judge believes heresay.
If you read the court documents, no DNA was collected from ANYONE because the burial plot of Robert Johnson is unknown. He is buried in one of three places, just thrown in the ground without a proper burial. The man is not at rest. Also, the relatives of Carrie Spencer did not want to disrespect her and have her exhumed. What the court failed to realise was that DNA can be collected from the living relative, as it was on the maternal side.
I agree, Carol, and don’t forget that Claud claims in the documentary "In Search of Robert Johnson" that he was seven or eight years old the last time he saw his father and "he played and sanged the guitar for me" (sic). If Claud was born in 1931, Robert Johnson was already dead when Claud was seven or eight years old.