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Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Lightnin' Hopkins, Willie Dixon, R.L. Burnside, Son House, Blind Willie McTell, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf
In an eloquent testimonial included in the liner notes to the box set Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Columbia Records, 1990), disciple EricClapton said, “Robert Johnson to me is the most important blues musician who ever lived....I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice.”
The same liner notes tell about how Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress workers the Delta in search of Robert Johnson (who had already passed from poisoning) and instead found Muddy Waters in Stovall, MS, because he played a bit like Son House and Robert Johnson.