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Robert Johnson – A Brief Biography (1911-1938)
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Robert Johnson was an American blues musician and singer-songwriter, who is widely regarded as a master of the blues and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
He is also considered one of the most important blues singers and guitarists of all time.
Early Life
Robert Johnson was born on 8th May 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi to Noah Johnson and Julia Major Dodds.
Johnson’s mother, Julia, was initially married to a somewhat prosperous landowner and furniture maker in Hazlehurst named Charles Dodd, with whom she had ten children.
However, Dodd fell into dispute with some white landowners and was forced to leave Hazlehurst by a white lynch mob.
Dodd went and settled down in Memphis and changed his name to Charles Spencer. Two years later, Julia made her way to Memphis with Johnson, for Johnson to be raised by Spencer.
Almost nothing is known about Johnson’s biological father, Noah, except that
