Todd Rundgren's Johnson

Todd Rundgren's Johnson is the twentieth studio album by American musician Todd Rundgren, released on April 12, 2011 by MPCA Records. The album is a tribute to blues musician Robert Johnson, and released on Johnson's 100th birthday. Rundgren started out playing guitar professionally in a blues garage band called Woody's Truck Stop, around 1966, where he was heavily inspired by and performed blues songs by Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Blues Project, and music by original Chess blues artists and British blues-rock groups like the Yardbirds. This album is a testimony to that music, its direct predecessors, and influence, as Rundgren says, "When I first got out of high school, my first gig was in a blues band.