Robert Johnson did not sell his soul to the devil. But how did he crack the Blues code...?
While modern music historians have now almost completely stripped the Blues of its myths
award-winning Swiss singer-songwriter slide guitarist and book author Richard Koechli gives
him back the soul in a philosophical way. With a mystical story that deeply explores the
question of what exactly might be behind the legendary mojo of the great Blues masters. Koechli
embarks on a trip to the temples of the African-American musical soul gets involved in strange
thought adventures meets all kinds of stars of Blues and Rock history - and in the end is
haunted in a dream by the most famous of all Blues figures by Robert Johnson (1911-1938).
Johnson 'tells' him what really happened in Mississippi back then how he got the Blues secret
- and whether the devil really played a role ...A stirring story for all Blues lovers full of
light-footed poetry spiritual depth and music-historical precision. You can feel in every line
that the author is not a theorist but a Blues artist down to the core.
