Myth or fact. What happened at the crossroads to Robert Johnson? Dids he sell his soul for his extraordinary talent, or did he just pracrice like crazy for a year?

RJ is a musical figure of immense importance about whom we know almost nothing, although demand for information has spawned several learned tomes. His legend lives on. Eric Clapton for many years was reputed to be too intim adated to even attempt to play a RJ song. Robert Lockwood has fashioned a career that has taken him out of journeyman status because he is RJ's step son.

Is this all hype? How good was Johnson?

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