"Robert Johnson was born in rural Mississippi and died young, leaving little behind except blues like no one sung the blues before him. A legend says that Robert sold his soul to the devil in return for becoming King of the Delta Blues."--From source other than the Library of CongressPoetry and music lyrics celebrate the life of Robert Johnson, a legendary guitarist who lived during the Depression and who became one of the leading musicians of blues music before his untimely death at the age of twenty-seven.