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Living with Zimmerman's family for about a year,<ref name=blueser>[https://trueblueser.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/the-truth-about-robert-johnson/ "The Truth about Robert Johnson", ''Riverside Blues Society'', April 14, 2010]. Retrieved 6 April 2019</ref> Johnson became known by his initials, "R.L.". After practising together while sitting on tombstones in Beauregard Cemetery – though to be a contributory factor to the legend of Johnson "selling his soul to the Devil" in order to play well – the pair toured local [[Lumberjack#History|lumber camp]]s and juke joints before Johnson began performing on his own.<ref name=merry/> When he returned to his home in [[Clarksdale, Mississippi|Clarksdale]], Johnson impressed locals with how much his performing skills had improved during his time away, and, in 1936 and 1937, recorded the songs that eventually secured his status as one of the most important and influential blues performers.<ref name=conforth/> Members of Zimmerman's family have claimed that some of Johnson's songs, including "[[Ramblin' on My Mind]]", were in fact written by Zimmerman before Johnson stayed with the household, and others including "[[Dust My Broom]]" and "[[Come On In My Kitchen]]" were written by Johnson and Zimmerman together.<ref name=merry/>
Zimmerman himself never made any recordings, though he performed widely in Mississippi. He gave up playing blues music, probably in the 1950s, and became a [[Pentecostal]] minister. He moved to [[California]] around 1960, and died in [[Compton, California|Compton]], [[Los Angeles]]
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