Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
The story goes that the young bluesman Robert Johnson took his guitar to a Delta crossroads at midnight, and a big man, the Devil, tuned it for him and handed back genius in trade for his soul. Johnson recorded twenty-nine songs that remade American music and died at twenty-seven, poisoned, in 1938. The crossroads of highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale claims the legend with a sculpture of guitars. The music is real and immortal; the deal is the myth that guards it.
Highways 61 and 49, Clarksdale (Coahoma County, MS). Source: The founding legend of the blues, at a real Delta crossroads. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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