Robert Johnson Hellhound Blues folk art painting
$550.00
Out of stock
Robert Johnson Hellhound Blues folk art painting
Very large – a 24″x34″ wooden cabinet door style construction – acrylic paint – The Delta Blues legend pictured with his myth…. the selling of the soul to the Devil. Shop for Blues folk art paintings at the Mojohand gallery often, as new art is added weekly!
Ships in the Continental USA ONLY – Hawaii and Alaska, email me for a quote
Hand painted by Grego Anderson – “America’s favorite Blues folk artist”
Owner and only employee at Mojohand.com – the one man Blues Boutique
Free shipping for all orders over $35 in the USA
©Mojohand.com – Everything Blues™
What one of my customers had to say:
“you’re damn right I got the blues, and I wear your shirts proudly to every Blues show I attend” – Craig W. – Cleveland
In the humid twilight of the Mississippi Delta, a young man with a beaten guitar changed the course of American music. His name was Robert Johnson—a name that today echoes through rock halls, jazz clubs, and the annals of myth. Though he recorded just 29 songs between 1936 and 1937, Johnson’s influence would ripple outward, shaping the sounds of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and even the Rolling Stones.
Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and came of age in a region where music was both escape and inheritance. The Delta Blues was a language of heartbreak and survival, sung in cotton fields and juke joints. By his early twenties, Johnson had become fluent—but legend insists his mastery came from a darker transaction.
As the story goes, Johnson met the devil at a crossroads at midnight, offering his soul in exchange for supernatural skill on the guitar. Whether myth or metaphor, it captures the eerie brilliance that poured from his fingers and voice. His recordings—like “Cross Road Blues,” “Hellhound on My Trail,” and “Love in Vain”—carry an almost spectral intensity, the sense of a man haunted by both desire and doom.
Johnson’s life was as brief as it was mysterious. He died in 1938, reportedly poisoned at a roadhouse near Greenwood, Mississippi. He was 27 years old, decades before the number would take on its own mythic weight in music lore.
For years, Johnson was little more than a rumor—his songs passed from hand to hand, his face nearly forgotten. Then came the 1961 release of King of the Delta Blues Singers, which introduced his haunting voice to a new generation. Musicians like Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton found in his work both raw beauty and musical architecture that would shape rock’s DNA.
Today, Robert Johnson stands as both man and myth: a symbol of genius born from hardship, of art that transcends the limits of time, and of the eternal allure of the blues. Whether or not he truly met the devil, his music still burns with the same unearthly fire.
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Robert Johnson Hellhound Blues folk art painting
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Out of stock
Robert Johnson Hellhound Blues folk art painting
Very large – a 24″x34″ wooden cabinet door style construction – acrylic paint – The Delta Blues legend pictured with his myth…. the selling of the soul to the Devil. Shop for Blues folk art paintings at the Mojohand gallery often, as new art is added weekly!
Ships in the Continental USA ONLY – Hawaii and Alaska, email me for a quote
Hand painted by Grego Anderson – “America’s favorite Blues folk artist”
Owner and only employee at Mojohand.com – the one man Blues Boutique
Free shipping for all orders over $35 in the USA
©Mojohand.com – Everything Blues™
What one of my customers had to say:
“you’re damn right I got the blues, and I wear your shirts proudly to every Blues show I attend” – Craig W. – Cleveland
In the humid twilight of the Mississippi Delta, a young man with a beaten guitar changed the course of American music. His name was Robert Johnson—a name that today echoes through rock halls, jazz clubs, and the annals of myth. Though he recorded just 29 songs between 1936 and 1937, Johnson’s influence would ripple outward, shaping the sounds of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and even the Rolling Stones.
Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and came of age in a region where music was both escape and inheritance. The Delta Blues was a language of heartbreak and survival, sung in cotton fields and juke joints. By his early twenties, Johnson had become fluent—but legend insists his mastery came from a darker transaction.
As the story goes, Johnson met the devil at a crossroads at midnight, offering his soul in exchange for supernatural skill on the guitar. Whether myth or metaphor, it captures the eerie brilliance that poured from his fingers and voice. His recordings—like “Cross Road Blues,” “Hellhound on My Trail,” and “Love in Vain”—carry an almost spectral intensity, the sense of a man haunted by both desire and doom.
Johnson’s life was as brief as it was mysterious. He died in 1938, reportedly poisoned at a roadhouse near Greenwood, Mississippi. He was 27 years old, decades before the number would take on its own mythic weight in music lore.
For years, Johnson was little more than a rumor—his songs passed from hand to hand, his face nearly forgotten. Then came the 1961 release of King of the Delta Blues Singers, which introduced his haunting voice to a new generation. Musicians like Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton found in his work both raw beauty and musical architecture that would shape rock’s DNA.
Today, Robert Johnson stands as both man and myth: a symbol of genius born from hardship, of art that transcends the limits of time, and of the eternal allure of the blues. Whether or not he truly met the devil, his music still burns with the same unearthly fire.
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