{"id":29306,"date":"2013-07-08T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=29306"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:28:14","slug":"northeast-mississippi-daily-journal-ole-miss-archive-preserves-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/northeast-mississippi-daily-journal-ole-miss-archive-preserves-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Ole Miss archive preserves the blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Music fans around the world have marked Aug. 16 as a day of mourning. No doubt most think back to 1977 when Elvis Presley sang his last tune.<\/p>\n<p>But a few will have 1938 on their minds. That\u2019s when a different American music pioneer died just outside Greenwood. Robert Leroy Johnson was a bluesman who had little commercial success during his lifetime, but his recordings still affect music that\u2019s made today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have his death certificate,\u201d said Greg Johnson (no relation), curator of the Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi\u2019s J.D. Williams Library. \u201cIt\u2019s a certified copy. The original is on file in Leflore County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By itself, Robert Johnson\u2019s certificate makes official the tragic death of a 26-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>But as part of the Blues Archive, it helps document Mississippi\u2019s native music that grew out of slave spirituals and work songs and became the foundation of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. <a href=\"http:\/\/djournal.com\/bookmark\/23066797-Ole-Miss-archive-preserves-the-blues\">Read the entire story.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Music fans around the world have marked Aug. 16 as a day of mourning. No doubt most think back to 1977 when Elvis Presley sang his last tune. But a few will have 1938 on their minds. That\u2019s when a different American music pioneer died just outside Greenwood. 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