The Return of Robert Johnson

 I finally got word from project organizer Tom Huck as to what is going on with the planned Robert Johnson show at the Country Music Hall of Fame, with the assistance of Hatch Show Print (both in Nashville) that I have been making Robert Johnson woodcuts for these past three years.  And that word is that the show is off in its current form.  What it came down to was the various estates that own pieces of Johnson couldn't come to terms, and so the facilities decided not to do it.  

Does that mean that this project is over?  No idea.  This has been a thing we have worked on for the past three years, and Huck and I have been talking about a Johnson project going back to more than 30 years ago.  It's far from impossible that this whole thing will rise again, somewhere.  For now, there is a plan to put one of my prints in a frame and have the rest of the series there to show in a booth he is having at a big print fair in Brooklyn in the spring.  (which one would be framed- that's up to him I would think)  This kind of thing could be good exposure, both for me and for the whole concept, which seems to be popular with viewers so far.  When I know something more, I'll post it here.

Meanwhile, I may do some more Johnson prints.  I do have ideas for a few more, and these things have some popularity in terms of viewers and sales, as much as anything I have done in recent years.  I want to get the currently going boardwalk print finished first, and I now may print some fresh copies of the finished Johnson prints that I have already done,  including the lyrics.  If they are going to be seen by a new audience now, perhaps I should.  But after that, who knows?  So far, not even me.