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Podcast: Song Lyric Meanings
Episode: "Cross Road Blues" by Robert Johnson
Description: Song Lyrics Meaning - Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson
"Cross Road Blues" (commonly known as "Crossroads") is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He performed it as a solo piece with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues-style. The song has become part of the Robert Johnson mythology as referring to the place where he supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his musical talent. This is based largely on folklore of the American South that identifies a crossroads as the site where such...