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    The Crossroads

    1942 · Comedy · 1h 30m

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  1. Sep 13, 2017 · A legend about a boy with a harmonica as his only friend and a guitar he was unable to play, a boy so fed up with his lonely life, he took his guitar to the intersection of Highways 49 (“The Blues Highway”) and 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, to ask the Devil to fine-tune it and give him a way out of his misery.

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  3. Come see for yourself...around midnight. Clarksdale Mississippi is recognized as the location of the famous 'Devil's Crossroads' where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in return for fame as a bluesman.

  4. Oct 28, 2014 · The myth of the “crossroads” comes from Africa and some of its traditions brought to the U.S. and Mississippi with its slave population. The story goes that if you need something bad enough, you can make a deal with “Elegba”, or Satan. You go to a crossroads at midnight and wait until he shows up.

  5. Crossroads is a 1986 American musical drama film inspired by the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson. Starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca and Jami Gertz, the film was written by John Fusco and directed by Walter Hill and features an original score by Ry Cooder featuring classical guitar by William Kanengiser and harmonica by Sonny Terry.

  6. As time went on however, Johnson would dream of greater and greater fame until one fateful evening, as the story goes — perhaps the greatest music backstory ever — he was instructed to go to the crossroads in Clarksdale, where he met a large, mysterious black man who took his guitar and began to tune it.

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  8. Oct 8, 2014 · Discover Clarksdale Crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi: Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

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