Old News ?? 3rd Robert Johnson Photo

[Strummer07]

I'll be honest and say I thought there was only 2 known photo's of the bluesman Robert Johnson, that is what all the sleeve notes suggest anyway

Turns out there is a 3rd ( unless its April Fools day early !!)

This is courtesy of the web site
http://www.americanbluesscene.com/
Appears this is not such new news and has been around a while .. there is a certificate of authenticity the site above

Sure looks like him ! and for me this picture shows him looking quite the Ladies man , which he was supposed to be .... and what supposed to be the death of him in the end !!

You gotta go out some way ... may as well go out with a big smile on your face !! Ladies can do that ! ( or so I'm told !!)

[12bar]

It came out first in 2008, but has only recently been confirmed:

The two confirmed images of Johnson were located in 1973, in the possession of the musician's half-sister Carrie Thompson, and were not widely published until the late 1980s. A third photo, purporting to show Johnson posing with fellow blues performer Johnny Shines, was published in the November 2008 edition of Vanity Fair magazine[93] and was authenticated in 2013.[94] The same article claims that other photographs of Johnson, so far unpublished, may exist.
(wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson)

[Blindboy]

That's pretty cool. I have seen it before, but it hadn't been authenticated yet. He was pretty young looking it this photo.