His wife and child died in childbirth around 1930 and he is said to have devoted himself to the guitar. Robert Johnson was a Mississippi blues singer and songwriter, who according to legend, sold his soul to Satan “at the crossroads” in exchange for his remarkable talent on the guitar.īorn and raised in Mississippi, Robert Johnson started playing blues guitar in the late 1920s. They said that Robert Johnson must have waited by the crossroads and gotten his guitar fine-tuned. In the delta of the Mississippi River, where Robert Johnson was born, they said that if an aspiring bluesman waited by the side of a deserted crossroads in the dark of a moonless night, then the Devil himself might come and tune his guitar, sealing a pact for the bluesman’s soul and guaranteeing a lifetime of easy money, women, and fame.
The story of the bluesman, the Devil, and the deal at the crossroads, as retold in Stephen Davis’ Hammer of the Gods.
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