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Brother Robert: Mrs. Annye C. Anderson
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Brother Robert: Mrs. Annye C. Anderson

A stepsister remembers Robert Johnson

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Mar 12, 2024
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Mrs. Anderson's intimate and heartening memoir about family time with Robert Johnson helps rescue Robert from the myth-mongers who began making things up about him before his body was cold: the Faustian bargain with the devil; the illiterate, natural genius stumbling out of the fields and into the recording studio; the loner with no knowable past and to…

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