'Brother Robert' Tells True Story Of Childhood With Blues Legend Robert Johnson : NPR
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson in June. Ben James Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as a backwoods loner, his talent the result of selling his soul to the devil. Wrong and wrong again, according to Johnson's younger stepsister, who lives in Amherst, Mass. She tells his true story in Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson, a memoir about growing up with her brother she published in June. Her name is Annye Anderson, but unless you're older than she is — and fat chance of that, as she's 94 — you better call her Mrs. Anderson. "People say, ...
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