Eric Clapton on Robert Johnson: "When I was younger, Hellhound used to frighten me when I listened to it. The idea that he was really singing about being pursued by demons was too much for me – for a while I really couldn’t deal with it"
Classic interview: When Slowhand revisited Robert Johnson's legacy in 2004 we caught the bluesman in candid mode – "Robert Johnson wasn’t entertainment. When I first heard him I had a very hard time listening to him, because it demanded something of me"
