Editing Robert Johnson (section)

==In popular culture==
He is often considered the first member of the so-called "[[27 Club]]", a group of musicians who have died at that age.

Robert Johnson was played by La Monde Byrd in [[Supernatural (American TV series)]] season 2 episode 8 "Crossroad Blues".

In 1994, Johnson was featured on a U.S. postage stamp.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/the-black-experience-music-blues-singers/robert-johnson | title=Robert Johnson }}</ref>

The [[Tim McGraw]] song "How Bad Do You Want It" off the 2004 album ''[[Live Like You Were Dying]]'' opens with the lines "Robert Johnson went to the crossroads, so the legend goes/He left with his guitar, but the Devil took his soul, the Devil took his soul".

In season 2 episode 6 of the [[NBC]] sci-fi time-travel series ''[[Timeless (TV series)|Timeless]]'', "King of The Delta Blues", the protagonists travel back to San Antonio in 1936 when Robert Johnson (portrayed by Kamahl Naiqui) and Don Law (played by [[Gavin Stenhouse]]) were recording Johnson's first album in a hotel room. The episode incorporates a bit of Johnson's singing and playing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvworthwatching.com/post/A-Unique-Timeless-About-a-Uniquely-Talented-Man.aspx/|title=A Unique 'Timeless' About a Uniquely Talented Man|website=Tvworthwatching.com|date=April 22, 2018|access-date=February 6, 2023|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418060705/http://www.tvworthwatching.com/post/A-Unique-Timeless-About-a-Uniquely-Talented-Man.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''[[Me and the Devil Blues (manga)|Me and the Devil Blues]]'', a Japanese [[manga]] series that takes its title from [[Me and the Devil Blues|the song of the same name]] by Robert Johnson, chronicles a fictional version of Johnson's life, as a man called "RJ" who sells his soul to the devil for a talent for playing the blues.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-05-18/me-and-the-devil-blues-manga-wins-glyph-comic-award | title=Me and the Devil Blues Manga Wins Glyph Comic Award | date=August 19, 2023 }}</ref>

The 2021 song "Speechless" by [[Nas]] includes the lyrics "I went back into my past and then I sped it up/Robert Johnson, Winehouse and Morrison found where heaven was..."

In 2024, an episode of the British TV crime drama [[McDonald & Dodds]] featured the murder of a Blues enthusiast involved in seeking to identify the crossroads at which Robert Johnson had supposedly met the Devil. Entitled "Jinksy Sings the Blues", it was Episode 2 of Series 4 and was broadcast in the UK on 28 July 2024.