ROBERT JOHNSON MAKES IT TO VANITY FAIR

There's a long article in the current issue of Vanity Fair about the only blues musician who ever seems to interest glossy magazines and snobbish newspapers, Robert Johnson, centred around what claims to be very possibly a "new" photograph of him. The article is here, and I link to it because my entry on Robert Johnson in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia was written when the long legal wrangle over who ought to own his estate appeared to be over. The Vanity Fair piece contains some updated detail - and a fair bit of detail it is too - about this unseemly gamble for his clothes. It's far more interesting than the silly speculation about the extremely dodgy photograph.