- Richard Johnston
Why would I simply tell you that Memphis bluesman Richard Johnston is planning to launch a new video project when I can relay all the pertinent information in the form of a pithy personal anecdote with a good punch line? It all began when Johnston, Beale Street’s uber-busker and the subject of an Award-winning PBS documentary titled Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour, showed up at my house. He’s been my neighbor in Uptown for a few years and we have been known to talk at length over the fence. Still, I was somewhat surprised to find the tightly wound musician ringing my doorbell and vibrating at an even higher than usual pitch.
