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Hi John, the short story (which can be found in part 1 of Muddy Waters and His Guitarists) is that Alan Lomax and John Work from Fisk University were traveling around the South recording bluesmen and -women for Library of Congress, and they had heard about Muddy Waters and went to Stovall Plantation to find him. On August 31, 1941, they recorded “Feel Like Going Home” (aka “Country Blues”) and “I’se Be Troubled.”
Although Alan Lomax gets and deserves a lot of credit, it was John Work who first motivated the need to document the folk songs of the black sharecroppers and other rural inhabitatants.
If you use some of the terms here to Google, you’ll find a lot more on the subject.
I don’t have anything on Robert Johnson right now, or planned, but I’m in the thinking phase of part 3 on Muddy Waters’ guitarists.
Don D.
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Hey Don, first want to thank you much for the quick reply,, I was just out on the deck bsin about this with someone close who said “nobody knows how he really died” it could have been a jealous lover poison wisky , could of been stabbed etc.. back then down there in south nobody even knew when he died!!!! and it probably is true thinking those were the days so much racism, nobody relly cared enough for how he died,, just the facts,, nobody really knows even to this date how he died ,,iwas told (tried wiki but anybody could have posted that) so i was told.. but reason I started this was if you knew those looking for Johnson not knowing he died until Muddy explain to them first his passing,, that it how it was back then.. sad but true,, i believe it too..but haven’t researched or found what i was told.
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