The Devil's Musician: Robert Johnson's Legend

They say there was once a musician whose talent came overnight… so suddenly,

and so impossibly, that people believed he made a deal with the devil himself. His name was Robert

Johnson, a wandering blues player from Mississippi in the early 1930s. Most musicians said

he was nothing special— average at best. But then, something strange happened.

Johnson disappeared for a while. No one knows where he went, or who he stayed

with, or what he was doing. But when he came back, he didn’t just improve—

he played like someone else entirely. His hands moved too fast. His chords were

impossible. Even modern guitarists still struggle to copy him. That’s when the