Searching for Robert Johnson

Peter Guralnick · first published 1989 · ISBN 9780525248019

A slim, haunting investigation into the life of Robert Johnson, the Mississippi blues singer whose recordings in the 1930s became the template for modern blues and rock and roll. Guralnick admits from the start that Johnson's life resists documentation. Instead of padding a thin biography, Guralnick builds a meditation on what it means to chase a ghost, to want to know someone who left almost no record of his interior life.