Greg Johnson is Head of Special Collections, Blues Curator, and Professor at the University of Mississippi. He is the co-author of 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own (Roman & Littlefield, 2014), which won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections’ award for “Best Historical Research in Blues, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues,” and was also the recipient of the Music Library Association’s “Vincent H. Duckles Award.” He was the consulting editor for the Encyclopedia of the Blues (Routledge, 2006).  As a musician, he regularly performs traditional and contemporary Celtic and Americana folk, blues, jazz, classical, and early music on a variety of instruments.