The three boys start a rock and blues band in Spokane using Johnson's enchanted guitar. He sold his soul to the devil in 1931 and claims to have faked his death seven years later.
In 1995, Thomas Builds-The-Fire, Junior Polatkin, and Victor Joseph, who also appear in Sherman Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, meet American blues musician Robert Johnson. The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation.
Reservation Blues is a painful, humorous, and ultimately redemptive symphony about God and indifference, faith and alcoholism, family and hunger, sex and death.Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by American writer Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene). In addition, he examines the impact of cultural assimilation on the relationships between Indian women and Indian men. Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century. When Johnson passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas - lead singer of the rock-and-roll band Coyote Springs - a magical odyssey begins that will take the band from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly reappears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938.
In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. Winner of the American Book Award and a critically acclaimed national best seller, Reservation Blues continues to find new and adoring readers in academic and popular circles alike.
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