Month: May 2020

For decades there have been only two known photos of Robert Johnson. Now a third photo of Robert Johnson has been discovered.

Here are links to articles about this recently discovered photograph of Robert Johnson:

• Vanity Fair
• Mt. Zion Memorial Fund
• Blues Foundation

The previous two known photographs of Robert Johnson have been used to illustrate album covers and book covers.

Here are two examples of book covers using one of the first two known photographs of Robert Johnson:

Here is a book cover using the newly discovered photograph of Robert Johnson.

Here is an example of a CD cover using the second of the first two known photographs of Robert Johnson:

The photo used on the CD cover above was taken at Hooks Brothers Photography at 164 Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

We have written a post about the former Hooks Brothers Photography Studio.

The Mississippi Blues Trail marker commemorating Robert Johnson is outside the Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church south of Money, Mississippi.

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