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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And there wouldn't be any harm in that, Wald says, except that the legend tends to overshadow the real Robert Johnson. "To just say that he went to the crossroads in the dead of night, first of ...

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 ...