Richard Johnston

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Richard Wayne Johnston is an American country blues musician. In 2001 he won the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge and its Albert King Award for most promising blues guitarist.
His work as a street musician on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, was documented in the Alabama PBS film Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour. The film, directed by Max Shores, featured Johnston singing and playing his Lowebow cigar box guitar. It won first place in the professional documentary... plus