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Who Is Robert Johnson, the Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil?
Regardless of its origins, the Crossroads myth has become an indelible part of Johnson’s legacy. Robert Johnson’s influence on blues and rock music is immeasurable. With just 29 recorded songs ...
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The Truth about the Devil and the Crossroads
The legend of selling your soul to the devil at the crossroads is one of ... its roots in African folklore, blues traditions, and the life of Robert Johnson. Was it just a metaphor for musical ...
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“One of the best guitar solos ever!”: The Clapton classic that he called "wrong" but Eddie Van Halen loved
Is Eric Clapton’s solo in Cream’s version of Crossroads the greatest live blues-rock solo ever recorded? Here, we pose the question - and bust a few myths in the process. Robert Johnson’s ...
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'The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate takes) show a musician who was technically and stylistically ahead of many of his peers': 5 ways to play like Robert Johnson ...
The Robert Johnson legend goes that he gained his guitar virtuosity from the Devil after a midnight meeting at a Crossroads ... influenced the generations of blues guitarists that followed.
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ReMastered: Netflix's music series tells the story of Robert Johnson
The Robert Johnson episode – subtitled “Devil at the Crossroads” – is typical ... to the back-breaking work in the fields. Blues legend Taj Mahal explains that Johnson could play and ...
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“We’re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll music, and the guitar is at the core of all of it”: The America at the Crossroads exhibit charts the guitar’s ...
As the structure ascends from the ground floor through the center’s galleries and toward the open sky, the visages of Robert Johnson ... re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll ...