Tommy Johnson

The Dockery Plantation, just a few miles from Clarksdale Mississippi, was home to the giants of early Delta Blues. The folk music played by the country people there formed the origins of The Blues, and it spread out from that district all over The South, all over the country and all over the world. Tommy Johnson, Charley Patton and Son House, all lived at Dockery at various times, and their mutual friend Willie Brown brought the young Robert Johnson there in 1930.
Tommy Johnson is perhaps the least well known of these ‘big beasts’, and his recording career amounted to only 14 tracks, but his contribution to country Blues was enormous and his cultural links back to Africa are clearly important.