Blues beyond time - famous songs of Robert Johnson

Interview, March, 1999 by Greil Marcus

That dream, those words, didn't stop Atkins, and they won't stop anyone else. King of the Delta Blues is in preproduction at Rhino Films as I write; no director yet, but there's a script, not only about but by Robert Johnson. One of those things: It's a common name. There are seventeen in my telephone book, probably as many or more in yours, and one in none.