Five Facts You Didn’t Know About Robert Johnson

Five Facts You Didn’t Know About Robert Johnson 1. He Never Knew His Father Robert Johnson was born Robert Dodds sometime around May 8, 1911. The eleventh child born to Julia Dodds, Robert’s brothers and sisters had all been born of a marriage between Julia and Charles Dodds. However, Charles was not his father. A lynch mob forced Charles to flee Mississippi for Memphis, and Robert was born of an affair not long after. For years, his real father was a complete mystery to him. 2. He Had The Travellin’ Blues Robert shuffled between Mississippi and Arkansas while his mother sought work in the Delta’s numerous cotton plantations, punctuated by brief visits to Memphis. His life finally settled down when his mother married a sharecropper named Dusty Willis, who moved the family to the Leatherman Plantation, near Commerce, Mississippi. ... 🔴 WebSite: #blues #robertjohnson #bluesmusic