Robert Johnson

Not to be confused with one of the most famous bluesmen of all time or the Bob Johnson who strums lightly on records by jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, the Memphis-based Robert Johnson has been recording since the early '70s. Some early appearances were on recordings by the Hot Dogs, a band that featured Jack Holder and Greg Reding, later to cross the Mississippi River and become members of the raunchy hard-rocking Black Oak Arkansas. By the late '70s, Johnson had recorded a single with the Bell Heirs and had established a somewhat regular playing relationship with a r...