Watch Keb’ Mo’ and Musicians From Morocco, Argentina and More Play Robert Johnson’s “Walking Blues”

Playing for Change, a multimedia company with a stated goal of connecting, inspiring and spreading peace through music, has released the newest video in its “Songs Around the World” series. The clip features Keb’ Mo’ and others collaborating on a version of the country blues staple, “Walking Blues,” originally written and recorded by Son House in 1930. Robert Johnson recorded his own version in 1936.

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Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.