"Cross Road Blues" (sometimes known simply as "Crossroads") is a blues song written and recorded by American blues artist Robert Johnson in Johnson performed it as a solo piece with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues-style.

Cross Road Blues (Take 2) Lyrics: I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees / I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees / Asked the Lord above, "Have mercy, save poor Bob if you please.

Jan 20,  · Legend has it that Robert Johnson, the King of the Delta Blues and the very first rock star, did just such a thing. As a young man from Mississippi, aspiring to be humanity’s greatest ever guitar player, and desperate because he didn’t feel he was even close, Johnson apparently met Satan at a crossroad where he offered his soul in exchange.

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Robert Johnson Lyrics "Cross Road Blues" I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees Asked the Lord above "Have mercy, now save poor Bob, if you please" Yeoo, standin' at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride Ooo eee, I tried to flag a ride Didn't nobody seem to know me, babe, everybody pass me by.

In the film Crossroads, a fictional film based loosely on Robert Johnson and Tommy Johnson's stories, the guitar-playing hero plays a Niccolo Paganini song on the electric guitar during a musical showdown with one of his competitors. Multiple new books and films dissect and theorize about the myth and the reality behind it.

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