Oct 2nd, 2008 · Austerely beautiful and emotionally candid, Lance Hammer's debut melds plainspoken American realism with oblique European minimalism. A study in stalemated lives, it's as dread-filled as a Robert Johnson song — though never that direct.
Jul 19th, 2008 · Delta blues guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards is one of the few men alive who knew the iconic bluesman Robert Johnson. If playing with the man who (as legend has it) sold his soul to the devil wasn't enough, Edwards was there the night Johnson was poisoned. At 93, he's still playing and having fun.
Jul 15th, 2008 · Raised in the folk community of New York's Greenwich Village, the guitarist has spent her career in music perserving the Southern acoustic blues traditions of predecessors such as Son House and Robert Johnson.
Mar 17th, 2006 · Renee Montagne talks to Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television. He retired as the company's CEO at the end of last year. Now he's on to his "second act." Johnson plans to build a consumer financial services company that targets black customers.
Feb 12th, 2006 · Robert Johnson, who founded the Black Entertainment Television network 25 years ago, has stepped down. New CEO Debra Lee is swiftly making changes to shift the profitable cable channel away from mostly showing music videos to a more varied slate of programming. Her biggest challenge is keeping BET's core audience and profitability during the evolution.
Aug 9th, 2005 · Earl Graves Sr., publisher of Black Enterprise magazine, and Robert Johnson, founder and chairman of Black Entertainment Television, join host Ed Gordon to discuss the career and legacy of Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson.