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Robert Johnson: A Blues Retrospective Part 1

We present part 1 of our guest columnists’ passionate views on the blues career of the immortal Robert Johnson.

Boz Scaggs’ new album, ‘Memphis’, is his most fully realized work, and it’s an album you should own for its purity of sound and impact.

Etta James accomplished so much more than her early goal of becoming “a raunchy blues singer”.

Susan Tedeschi has teamed up with her husband Derek Trucks, to produce ‘Revelator’, with a simmering and scorching 11-piece band.

This is the definitive, remastered edition of famed bluesman Robert Johnson’s complete recorded works.

We’ve heard some amazing work from some long-established artists this year, and this Clapton album is up there with the best of them.