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Edition #156, August 20, 2001

ROBERT JOHNSON IN THE THIRD GRAVE?

Pioneer Delta bluesman Robert Johnson - who made a deal with the devil so he could play guitar - is getting a new shrine.

Johnson died in 1938 at the age of 27 and already has two grave markers. But the new one is at the place where experts think he is most likely buried.

Just outside of Greenwood, 110 miles south of Memphis, the third site has been regarded as the real Johnson grave for at least a decade as it is in the graveyard used by the plantation owner on whose land Johnson died.

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