In 2007, Bruce Conforth tracked down Ike Zimmerman's daughter Loretha, replacing what he counted as fourteen sentences written about her father. Isaiah "Ike" Zimmerman (1907-1967, spelled Zinnerman in older accounts) was born in Grady, Alabama, and played guitar and harmonica in Mississippi juke joints, taking in young Robert Johnson around 1931 for a year of nightly lessons. Their famous legend has the pair selling their souls to the devil at a midnight crossroads; Loretha said it was blunter than that: they practiced in a cemetery because it was quiet, and "he wasn't never scared, but he wasn't meeting the devil neither." No one could name who taught Zimmerman: a brother knew two chords, and, per the family, "Ike just started on those two chords and he just went on. Just learned hisself." He gave up the blues for the pulpit and died in Compton in 1967, having never recorded.