Blues World – Booklet No.1 – Robert Johnson – Four Editions, First published 1967
Blesh, Rudi (1946) "Jazz Begins" quoted in Marybeth Hamilton (below).
Charters, Samuel B (1959). The Country Blues. Rinehart.
Charters, Samuel B (1967). The Bluesman. The story of the music of the men who made the Blues. Oak Publications.
Charters, Samuel B (1973). Robert Johnson. Oak Publication. ISBN 0-8256-0059-6
Edwards, David Honeyboy (1997). The World Don't Owe Me Nothing. The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 1-55652-368-8
Evans, David (1971). Tommy Johnson. Studio Vista. SBN 289 70150
Freeland, Tom (2000). Robert Johnson: Some Witnesses to a Short Life in Living Blues no. 150 March/April 200 p. 49
Gioia, Ted (2008). Delta Blues. The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionised American Music. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-33750-1
Graves, Tom (2008). Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson. DeMers Books, ISBN 978-0-9816002-1-5
Greenberg, Alan (1983). Love in Vain: The Life and Legend of Robert Johnson. Doubleday Books, ISBN 0-385-15679-0
1994 revised edition retitled Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson, with foreword by Martin Scorsese, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-80557-X
Guralnick, Peter (1989). Searching for Robert Johnson (1989). E. P. Dutton hardcover: ISBN 0-525-24801-3, Plume 1998 paperback: ISBN 0-452-27949-6
Komara, Edward (2007). The Road to Robert Johnson, The genesis and evolution of blues in the Delta from the late 1800s through 1938. Hal Leonard. ISBN 0-634-00907-9
Marcus, Greil (1975). Mystery Train. E.P. Dutton.
Hamilton, Marybeth (2007). In Search of the Blues. Black Voices, White Visions. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06018-X
Lomax, Alan (1993). The Land Where the Blues Began. Methuen. ISBN 0-413-67850-4
Neff, Robert & Anthony Connor (1975). Blues. David R Godine. Quoted in Pearson & McCulloch p. 114.
Palmer, Robert (1982) paperback edition. Deep Blues. Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-34039-6
Pearson, Barry Lee; McCulloch, Bill (2003). Robert Johnson: Lost and Found. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-02835-X
Schroeder, Patricia R. (2004). Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-02915-1
Russell, Tony (2004). Country Music records, A Discography, 1921–1942. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-513989-5
Townsend, Henry (1999). A Blues Life. As told to Bill Greensmith. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02526-1
