This is really worth a read . . . . . . I guess it never really struck me before that Robert Johnson’s disappearance and much lauded return suddenly 9sic) able to play like a master being from a meeting with the Devil and a pact struck down at the crossroads being a marketing ploy was so much better than the days [months years?] spent learninging to master his instrument and that it should enter the popular zeitgeist and became a central part of the myth still popular today. The death of legendary blues man Blind Lemon might also be such . . .spread to encourage sales by person or person unknown and this never occurred to me either. read on here
Did Blind Lemon Jefferson die from poisoned coffee?
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