News Roundup: 11/13/2009

Robert Johnson has been dead for 71 years, but his birthplace wasn’t verified until recently. A letter from Johnson’s half-sister confirms that the iconic bluesman was born in 1911 in a Mississippi home built by his stepfather, a well-to-do craftsman and landowner. Located in Hazlehurst, the house has since fallen into disrepair and is the [...]

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