Editing Robert Johnson (section)

===Contemporaries===
Johnson's contemporaries, including [[Johnny Shines]], [[Johnnie Temple]], [[Henry Townsend (musician)|Henry Townsend]], [[Robert Lockwood Jr.]], [[Calvin Frazier]], and [[David "Honeyboy" Edwards]] were among those who kept his music alive through performing his songs and using his guitar techniques.{{sfn|Komara|2007|pp=68–69}} Fellow Mississippi native [[Elmore James]] is the best known and is responsible for popularizing Johnson's "Dust My Broom".{{sfn|Rubin|2015|loc=eBook}} In 1951, he recast the song as a Chicago-style blues, with electric slide guitar and a backing band.{{sfn|Palmer|1981|p=214}} According to blues historian Gerard Herhaft:
{{Blockquote|Johnson's influence upon Elmore James's music always remained powerful: his falsetto voice, almost shrill, and the intensive use of the "walking" bass notes of the boogie-woogie, several pieces of James' repertoire were borrowed from Johnson (e.g, "Dust My Broom", "Rambling on My Mind", and "Crossroads").{{sfn|Herzhaft|1992|p=162}}}}
James' version is identified as "one of the first recorded examples of what was to become the classic Chicago shuffle beat".{{sfn|Charters|1973|p=29}} The style often associated with Chicago blues was used extensively by [[Jimmy Reed]] beginning with his first record "High and Lonesome" in 1953.{{sfn|Romano|2006|p=48}} Sometimes called "the trademark Reed shuffle" (although also associated his second guitarist, [[Eddie Taylor]]),{{sfn|Romano|2006|p=149}} it is the figure Johnson used updated for electric guitar.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=184}}