![]() “ Biography of a Phantom has such mystique,” says Preston Lauterbach, a music journalist and author of The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll. But it won’t necessarily be for what they’ll learn about Johnson. Music scholars and blues aficionados will likely pore over the biography, which includes a key introduction and afterword, as well as Troutman’s detailed annotations. ![]() ![]() And this summer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival musician Dom Flemons performs with Phil Wiggins and Yasmin Williams July 9 in celebration of the box set. The three-CD/six-LP box set offers music gathered from front porches, living rooms, nightclubs and beyond, and will include 128 pages of liner notes featuring essays from producers Jeff Place and John Troutman, as well as contributions from Dom Flemons, Mark Puryear and McCormick’s daughter, Susannah Nix. To complement the exhibit, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will release Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971on August 4. ![]() ![]() The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himself. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey ![]()
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