"Brother Robert and I used to do the buck dance," Anderson says. Anderson's childhood, where she grew up in an extended family of siblings, half-siblings and the guitar-playing older stepbrother she called Brother Robert. Anderson will do just fine.'"Īmherst is a long way from the Memphis of Mrs.
"I say, 'Yes, I do.' And they wait for it. "People say, 'Don't you have a first name?'" Anderson says from the couch in her living room. Her name is Annye Anderson, but unless you're older than she is - and fat chance of that, as she's 94 - you better call her Mrs.
She tells his true story in Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson, a memoir about growing up with her brother she published in June. Wrong and wrong again, according to Johnson's younger stepsister, who lives in Amherst, Mass. Annye Anderson - stepsister of Robert Johnson - published her memoir Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson in June.īlues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as a backwoods loner, his talent the result of selling his soul to the devil.
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