"I was living on, I believe it was 2320 Carr Street during that time and I was playing at Ernest Walker's "House Party" on Jefferson. Robert Johnson had come over to find me, and he was a stranger in the town so he told me 'Look, I've heard about you.' He was just traveling through, and he says, 'Where are you working at tonight?' so I told him and he says, 'Can I come over?' and I said, 'Yeah," so he come over to Walker's...
Well, we sat in the back yard, and that fellow, he went over some guitar, and I thought, well, this guy's got it. I mean, he was amazing. I was a little bit older than him, but I didn't think anybody had any seniority over me on the guitar, but this guy made me look little."
-Henry Townsend 1962, on meeting Robert Johnson for the first time in 1935.