He was formative in my blues education. Not through the stuff most people know him for, but because at around the time I started to develop an interest, he was featuring in various articles in guitar magazines in relation to his "Robert Johnson Songbook" CD, and the story of him having picked up a guitar for the first time after many years of mental illness, because he was inspired to play some RJ. I think his versions (which are not necessarily the best) were the ones I first heard of many RJ tunes.
