The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2591   Message #10800
Posted By: Barry Finn
19-Aug-97 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: CROSSROADS location
Subject: RE: CROSSROADS
In 1903 WC Handy collected a song from an old timer playing slide guitar "I'm going where the Southern cross the Dog" . The Yazoo Delta or Yellow Dog Line crosses the Southern Line around Moorehead near to the Mississippi Delta. Willie Dixon wrote "I'm going down to the crossroads", a big hit for Eric Clapton (he's great for giving credit, where credit due). The crossroads was a place for dance & music, it was also a place of magic & superstition for the folk of the Delta, as it was for Gypsies, a place of news and a meeting spot for old friends. Barry