Reporting from Clarksdale, Miss. —Reporting from Clarksdale, Miss. — — The intersection of DeSoto and State streets here doesn’t look like anything special. On the southeast corner of the ...

If you know anything about Robert Johnson, it's probably that he acquired his guitar expertise by making a deal with the devil at the crossroads. That's the myth that has persisted through the ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon ... he took his guitar and went to a deserted crossroads (some say it was Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi). There, he met a shadowy ...

The legend, mirroring the Faust tale, says that Johnson met a large dark man where highways 61 and 49 cross ... Blues at the Crossroads has been touring the U.S., celebrating Johnson’s iconic ...

Several groups will share the stage in 2011 as part of Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centennial Concerts. These shows will celebrate what would have been Robert Johnson’s 100th ...

Nobody said anything about any voodoo-tinged midnight crossroads transactions, at least not when it came to Robert Johnson, and Johnny Shines, his closest musical companion ant long-time traveling ...

Blues singer-guitarist Robert Johnson recorded only 29 songs before he was fatally poisoned in August 1938 at the age of 27. Yet the platters he left behind are among the most influential records ...

The Robert Johnson legend goes that he gained his guitar virtuosity from the Devil after a midnight meeting at a Crossroads, as described in the song he recorded back in the 1930s – and rejuvenated ...