Where is the crossroads to sell your soul
Where to Sell Your Soul for the Delta Blues
four blues pilgrims Clarksdale is Mecca
just outside town highway 61 crosses
over highway 49 legend has it that it
was at this crossroads that Delta blues
man Robert Johnson made a deal with the
devil selling his soul in exchange for
supernatural guitar skills the Blues
grew a reputation for being the devil's
music the idea was that it must be bad
for it to sound so good in the first
half of the 20th century
Clarksdale was the big town of the Delta
where folks went to spend money and have
a good time juke joints filled the town
many like Reds lounge still operate to
this day
sharecroppers passed through shabby
storefronts like this one to hear a new
music an earthy blend of African rhythms
spiritual hymns and the field haulers of
hard labor it grew out of the darkest
reaches of life but was always balanced
by a rhymer much of Clark's tales
heritage is housed here at the Delta
blues Museum located in the old freight
depot it celebrates the musicians who
are closely associated with the town
Charlie Patton son house Robert Johnson
Muddy Waters John Lee Hooker Sam Cooke
and Ike Turner some blues musicians
never left the Delta others like Muddy
Waters did it said he boarded a bus
right here at this station
manjo and the six million other black
southerners in the great migration north
I'm going to pack my suitcase muddy sang
and make my getaway the exposure of
Muddy Waters music found in Chicago
launched the Delta blues
into the mainstream it's influenced
musicians around the world but it's
Clark's tale that remains ground zero
for the blues that's also the name of
this Blues Club co-owned by actor and
Mississippi native Morgan Freeman ground
zero sometimes books national acts but
in the Delta there's always plenty of
local talent
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