A wonderful look into the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson.
The story goes that robert johnson was a terrible blues guitarist really horribly bad but then one night he goes down to the crossroads at midnight and the devil re tunes his guitar and so in exchange for his soul he becomes able to play the most amazing blues.
Robert Johnsons music is very influentialwe inspiring people like Eric Clapton but beyond this legend and the fact he died at the age of 27 supposedly due to a bottle of poisoned whiskey very little is known about his life or where the whole going down to the cross roads story came from. Radiolab investigates the origins of the story and what little we know about the life of Robert Johnson
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Superb, thanks for the link. That'll be my morning listening while I do a doc!