Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach explore the life and music of bluesman Robert Johnson with special guests author Peter Guralnick, producer Larry Cohn, musician Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, and Johnson's "baby sis," Mrs. Annye C. Anderson.
Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast
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Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach explore the life and music of bluesman Robert Johnson with special guests author Peter Guralnick, producer Larry Cohn, musician Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, and Johnson's "baby sis," Mrs. Annye C. Anderson.
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October 28, 2021
The Douche Tablet
<p>Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach interview Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine and the research director of the Mississippi Blues Trail. Jim tells of crossing paths with Robert Johnson's memory during his long career as a journalist in Chicago and Mississippi. He shares audio of a 1980 interview with a musician named James Banister who volunteered some fascinating information touching on the subject of Robert Johnson's unrecorded repertoire while offering the strangest rumor ever recorded about the cause of Johnson's death. Jim also shares audio of the great piano player Memphis Slim who weighs in on Johnson's taste in women in a 1975 interview, not long after Slim's return to the U.S. from Paris. </p>
October 6, 2021
B.B. King vs. Robert Johnson; Jerron Paxton Interview
<p>Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach compare and contrast B.B. King and Robert Johnson and discuss the surprising link between the two very different artists in light of a new biography of King. They revisit the great Honeyboy Edwards and his enthralling memoir The World Don't Owe Me Nothing and debate the history of Robert Johnson's murder. Later, they interview Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, touching on a wide variety of subjects from L.A. juke joints to blackface minstrelsy, proving how painfully difficult the latter subject is to talk about. </p>
September 9, 2021
The Crossroads and Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings
<p>Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach discuss the most irritating myth associated with Robert Johnson and conclude that the deal with the devil at the crossroads is not it. They do, however, shed light on the importance of the crossroads to Robert Johnson, and it's not what you think. The featured guest is Larry Cohn, producer of Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings who tells a tale of big record company sloth and indifference to music of historical and artistic greatness that makes dealing with the devil seem preferable by comparison. </p> <p>For a deeper dive into the crossroads, check out the research of <a href="https://thechitlincircuit.substack.com/p/hoodoo-at-the-crossroads" target="_blank">Harry Middleton Hyatt</a>, who interviewed hoodoo conjurors in the South during Robert Johnson's life and found a surprising number of the artist's lyrical inspirations. So, stuff some hot food powder into that nation sack and let's go: https://thechitlincircuit.substack.com/p/hoodoo-at-the-crossroads.</p>
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