The myth is also attached to Tommy Johnson (1896 – 1956), Robert’s predecessor and no relation, as evidenced by LeDell’s quote. Indeed, Robert’s deal with the devil was posthumously pinned to him almost twenty years after his death. Nor did he ever claim to any such pact during his life, and those who knew him best-men like Johnson’s fellow rambling bluesman Johnny Shines-found the whole idea preposterous bordering on slanderous (and a diminution of his talent by ascribing it to some otherworldly force). Perhaps the most infamous-and erroneous-application of this myth is to the country bluesman Robert Johnson, although Robert himself never claimed to have sold anything in his song “Cross Road Blues”, let alone something as noticeable as his soul.
#I SOLD MY SOUL AT THE CROSSROADS SONG MOVIE#
In recent times it has been attached to bands such as Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, and was the subject of a 1986 movie starring Steve Vai and Ralph Macchio. In the history of wandering musicians, few stories capture the imagination like that of the Faustian pact at the crossroads, where one trades one’s immortal soul to the Devil for musical mastery in this world. LeDell Johnson, brother of bluesman Tommy Johnson (1896-1956) You could sing any kind of tangled up song you want to, and I’ll bet you he would play it. He used to play anything, don’t care what it was.
#I SOLD MY SOUL AT THE CROSSROADS SONG HOW TO#
That’s the way I learned how to play anything I want.” And he could. And then he’ll play a piece and hand it back to you. A big black man will walk up there and take your guitar, and he’ll tune it.
You have to go by yourself and be sitting there playing a piece. You have your guitar and be playing a piece sitting there by yourself. Get there, be sure to get there just a little ’for twelve o’clock that night so you’ll know you’ll be there. He said, “If you want to learn how to play anything you want to play and learn how to make songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a road crosses that way, where a crossroad is. He said the reason he knowed so much, said he sold hisself to the devil.
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