Cross Road Blues
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"Cross Road Blues" is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He performed it solo with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The song has become part of th
Original 78 record label
1969 Italian picture sleeve
Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, in 2010
Patrons at a juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1939
Robert Johnson
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Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
Cross Road Blues
…Cross Road Blues" (commonly known as "Crossroads") is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He performed it solo with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The song has become part of the Robert Johnson mythology as…
Alleged gravesite at Payne Chapel near Quito, with one of Johnson's three tombstones
Alleged gravesite at Little Zion Church north of Greenwood
The crossroads at Clarksdale, Mississippi