Editing Robert Johnson (section)

===Rock music===
In the mid-1950s, rock and roll pioneer [[Chuck Berry]] adapted the boogie pattern on guitar for his songs "[[Roll Over Beethoven]]" and "[[Johnny B. Goode]]".{{sfn|Rubin|2015|loc=eBook}} Author Dave Rubin commented:
{{Blockquote|his [Berry's] utilization of the bass-string cut-boogie patterns popularized by Robert Johnson on songs like "Sweet Home Chicago"{{nbsp}}... subtly altered the swing feel of the boogie blues into a more driving, straight 4/4 meter while still maintaining a limber lilt that is often missing in the countless imitations that followed.{{sfn|Rubin|2015|loc=eBook}}}}
The pattern "became one of the signature figures in early electric guitar-based rock and roll, such as that of Chuck Berry and the numerous rock musicians of the 1960s who were influenced by Berry", according to Perone.{{sfn|Perone|2019|p=90}} Although music historian Larry Birnbaum also sees the connection, he wrote that Johnson's "contributions to the origins of rock 'n' roll are negligible".{{sfn|Birnbaum|2013|pp=78, 380}} The [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] inducted Johnson as an early influence in its first induction ceremony, in 1986, almost a half century after his death. It also included four of his songs it deemed to have shaped the genre: "Sweet Home Chicago", "Cross Road Blues", "Hellhound on My Trail", and "Love in Vain".<ref name="Rockhall">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rockhall.com/exhibithighlights/500-songs-gj/|title=500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll G-J|year=1995|website=[[The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame|Rockhall.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822050749/http://www.rockhall.com/exhibithighlights/500-songs-gj/|archive-date=August 22, 2008|access-date=October 30, 2020}}</ref> [[Marc Meyers]], of the ''[[The Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]'', commented, "His 'Stop Breakin' Down Blues' from 1937 is so far ahead of its time that the song could easily have been a rock demo cut in 1954".<ref name="Myers"/>

Several rock artists describe Johnson as an influence:
* [[Eric Clapton]]{{snd}}"Robert Johnson to me is the most important blues musician who ever lived".{{sfn|LaVere|1990|p=23}} He recorded several of Johnson's songs as well as an entire tribute album, ''[[Me and Mr. Johnson]]'' (2004).<ref>{{Cite web| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1798862| title = Eric Clapton Takes on Robert Johnson's Blues: Guitarist Records the 'Powerful' Music that Influenced Him| date = March 30, 2004| website = [[Npr.org]]| access-date = October 27, 2021}}</ref> Clapton feels that rather than trying to recreate Johnson's originals, "I was trying to extract as much emotional content from it as I could, while respecting the form at the same time".{{sfn|LaVere|1990|p=23}}
* [[Bob Dylan]]{{snd}}"In about 1964 and '65, I probably used about five or six of Robert Johnson's blues song forms, too, unconsciously, but more on the lyrical imagery side of things. If I hadn't heard the Robert Johnson record when I did, there probably would have been hundreds of lines of mine that would have been shut down—that I wouldn't have felt free enough or upraised enough to write. [His] code of language was like nothing I'd heard before or since".{{sfn|Dylan|2004|pp=287–288}}
* [[Robert Plant]]{{snd}}"A lot of English musicians were very fired up by Robert Johnson [to] whom we all owe more or less our existence, I guess, in some way".<ref>{{Cite AV media| people = [[Terry Gross]]| date = August 24, 2004| title = Former Led Zeppelin Singer Robert Plant| type = Radio interview| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3868283| access-date = October 27, 2021| time = 9:05| publisher = [[Npr.org]]}}</ref> [[Led Zeppelin]] recorded "[[Traveling Riverside Blues]]" and quoted some of Johnson's lyrics in "[[The Lemon Song]]".<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2011/05/06/136023215/youve-never-heard-robert-johnsons-complete-recordings| last = Degennaro| first = Catherine| title = You've Never Heard Robert Johnson's 'Complete Recordings'?!| date = May 6, 2011| website = [[Npr.org]]| access-date = October 27, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Keith Richards]]{{snd}}"I've never heard anybody before or since use the [blues] form and bend it so much to make it work for himself{{nbsp}}... he came out with such compelling themes [and] just the way they were treated, apart from the music and the performance, [was appealing]."{{sfn|LaVere|1990|pp=22–23}} The [[Rolling Stones]] recorded "Love in Vain" and "Stop Breaking Down".{{sfn|Marcus|2015|p=196}}
*[[Johnny Winter]]{{snd}}"Robert Johnson knocked me out—he was a genius. [He and Son House] both were big influences on my acoustic slide playing."{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=26}} He recorded "Dust My Broom" with additional guitar by [[Derek Trucks]].<ref>{{Cite web| url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/roots-mw0002190165| last = Leggett| first = Steve| title = Johnny Winter: ''Roots''{{snd}}Review| website = [[AllMusic]]| access-date = October 27, 2021}}</ref>