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✧ Cross Road Blues ✧

"Cross Road Blues" is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He sang it as a solo piece with acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The lyrics describe Johnson's grief at being unable to catch a ride at an intersection before the sun sets. Some have attached a supernatural significance to the song. One of John...

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Figueroa St, LA, 2016 by Oli Kellett

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86 years ago today, on November 23rd, 1936, 25 year old Robert Johnson from Hazelhurst, MS walked through these doors into room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio, TX and changed the course of popular music. #robertjohnson #gunterhotel #vocalionrecords #comeoninmykitchen #crossroadblues #texasblues #mississippiblues #blackandwhitephotography #hasselblad