Elijah Wald on Robert Johnson

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We re-examine the myth of Robert Johnson. The most famous blues singer of them all died at the age of 27 after recording only 29 songs. Today he's idolized, but Elijah Wald tells Anne Strainchamps that may be for the wrong reasons.  Wald is the author of “Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues.”