The downtown business district of Tunica retains much of the character and architecture that it would have had when Robert Johnson and Johnny Shines were playing the joints here. The […]

One of the reasons that contemporary church members are less than pleased to have Johnson in their sparse little cemetery is that his grave has become an impromptu shrine for

Mrs. Rosie Eskridge, a lifetime member of Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church, remembered that as a young wife she brought water to her husband, Tom, as he was digging Robert

This part of downtown Greenwood is essentially unchanged since the days when Robert Johnson was walking the streets here, except that it is now virtually deserted, day and night.

Robert Johnson had a rented room in the Baptist Town section of Greenwood and, after allegedly being poisoned by a juke joint owner, Johnson was carried to a little house

Moved three times and now in serious need of stabilizing and restoration, this is the house in which Robert Johnson was born to Julia Major Dodds. Julia’s husband Charles, a

The second floor space above King’s was the home for the Hooks Brothers’ Photography Studio when Robert Johnson had his formal portrait taken. Begun by Henry A. Hooks Sr. and

Just across from the now-defunct Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, I looked up to see these signs juxtaposed in the fading evening light.

This venerable joint is still operating in the Georgetown section of Jackson. It couldn’t be 20’ x 40’ inside, with a small corner of the room raised for the band,

Chellie Lewis, the proprietor of the Queen of Hearts for decades, agreed to pose in front of his juke joint. As he straightened up for the picture, I said, “Now,