The legend goes that if you play your guitar at midnight at the intersection of highway 49 and Highway 61 in Clarksdale Mississippi an old black woman takes your guitar and gives it back. Tommy Johnson explicity claimed to have done this. Robert Johnson was rumored to have done this. I don't think Robert is trying to say he sold his soul, but rather he uses these mythical crossroads as a way of describing the blues he feels like being without a soul, in the absence of God.
No, the Highway 49 & Highway 61 intersection was just a tourist attraction spot...there's a Robert Johnson Museum there...The ACTUAL Crossroads where it happened is Mississippi Old Highway 8 & Dockery Road in Dockery, Mississippi...& this song is about Bob, after having signed his soul over to the devil for musical genius, to meet at that same crossroads, alone at midnight every Saturday Night...& he spent the one night with a woman instead & it broke his contract with "Scratch"...
No, the Highway 49 & Highway 61 intersection was just a tourist attraction spot...there's a Robert Johnson Museum there...The ACTUAL Crossroads where it happened is Mississippi Old Highway 8 & Dockery Road in Dockery, Mississippi...& this song is about Bob, after having signed his soul over to the devil for musical genius, to meet at that same crossroads, alone at midnight every Saturday Night...& he spent the one night with a woman instead & it broke his contract with "Scratch"...
The legend goes that if you play your guitar at midnight at the intersection of highway 49 and Highway 61 in Clarksdale Mississippi an old black woman takes your guitar and gives it back. Tommy Johnson explicity claimed to have done this. Robert Johnson was rumored to have done this. I don't think Robert is trying to say he sold his soul, but rather he uses these mythical crossroads as a way of describing the blues he feels like being without a soul, in the absence of God.
No, the Highway 49 & Highway 61 intersection was just a tourist attraction spot...there's a Robert Johnson Museum there...The ACTUAL Crossroads where it happened is Mississippi Old Highway 8 & Dockery Road in Dockery, Mississippi...& this song is about Bob, after having signed his soul over to the devil for musical genius, to meet at that same crossroads, alone at midnight every Saturday Night...& he spent the one night with a woman instead & it broke his contract with "Scratch"...
No, the Highway 49 & Highway 61 intersection was just a tourist attraction spot...there's a Robert Johnson Museum there...The ACTUAL Crossroads where it happened is Mississippi Old Highway 8 & Dockery Road in Dockery, Mississippi...& this song is about Bob, after having signed his soul over to the devil for musical genius, to meet at that same crossroads, alone at midnight every Saturday Night...& he spent the one night with a woman instead & it broke his contract with "Scratch"...