In this episode we’re going down to the cross road, fall to our knees, beg for mercy please and sell our soul for musical greatness.
We investigate Robert Johnson’s ‘Cross Road Blues’ and attempt to sort through, fact, fiction, myth and legend. Is it Blues’ the haunting tale of a Faustian contract or the harrowing reality of an African American man’s experience in the Deep South?
We also discuss Ralph Macchio’s punchable face. And find out what links Johnson to Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.
Sauces
Robert Johnson : lost and found
By Barry Lee Pearson & Bill McCulloch
Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture by Patricia Schroeder
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8277271/27-club-real-myth
https://www.musicradar.com/news/eric-clapton-interview-blues-robert-johnson
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