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Peter Guralnick: Searching For Robert Johnson

Charles Shaar Murray, Q, September 1990

THE POWERFUL FASCINATION which the legend of Robert Johnson still exerts over virtually all blues fans is derived, in almost equal proportion, from his genius and from the veils of mystery which have cloaked the facts of his life and his death.

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