A Robert Johnson Lyric: My First Encounter

David Crosby quotes Johnson on the first Crosby, Stills, & Nash album

Prelude: 1967

After a childhood experimenting with making music on every instrument I could get my hands on, at fifteen, in the summer of 1967, I took up guitar.

I'd heard Virginia bluesman John Jackson play a couple of songs in a Mike Seeger concert in May that year and began playing a borrowed guitar six weeks later while on staff at a summer camp.