Author Event | Bruce Conforth Discusses "Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson"

When

Tuesday June 11, 2019: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

Robert Johnson’s recordings, made in 1936 and 1937, have profoundly influenced generations of singers, guitarists, and songwriters. Yet until now, his short life—he was murdered at the age of 27—has been poorly documented. Join author Bruce Conforth as he discusses his new book Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson.

The biography, written with blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow, is the first to document Johnson’s lifelong relationship with Memphis family and friends, detail his trip to New York, disclose where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact this had on him, fully portray other women Johnson was involved with, and tell exactly how and why he died and who gave him poison. Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans worldwide by painting a living, breathing portrait of a man who was heretofore little more than a legend.

This event includes a book signing and copies will be on sale, courtesy of Bookbound.