You're a moron, show some respect dude...it was a myth man..they said that about guitarist back in those days...he simply took a year off and practiced his ass off..no soul selling happened
@@joshburk3843 There is an interview, right here on youtube, with Honeyboy Edwards, who says that Robert Johnson told him he sold himself to the devil...Is it true, I don't know, but he wrote stuff about it, and it certainly adds to the legend...... a religious channel called Goodfight ministries has a part of the interview, as well as one with Son House talking about it.......... again, I'm not saying it happened......it would be pretty crappy to have worked as hard as he must have and then 'ole scratch' gets the credit.
I think Robert Johnson died doing what he loved. He wasn't trying to live the richest lifestyle, he only wanted to be good at what he loved. Today, for a lot of musicians, it is about the money, and not for the love of the art. Some ppl can take a lesson from this story.
He got three gravesites. I don’t know why but it says so on the web. They weren’t sure where his body really lays so therefore he got three graves. What a legend. R.I.P Robert.
they need to build a swimming pool size- bbq fire pit with very hot live lava flowing, to remind everyone that his soul is now a property of the devil. he's down there suffering. May God, Holy Spirit, and Jesus have mercy on his soul, give him another chance.
Us southerners know better than to tamper with things like that, whats understand doesnt need to be explained shouldnt entertain those things because the devil is real
Man i love Robert Johnson. I am so glad that even in the beginning of 2024 he is well known. Even so many years later, he is immortal. The deal has been made.
My son and I just went to Clarksdale to the Crossroads and then down to Dockery Farms Plantation before journeying East over to Grenada and then back up North to my relatives home in Tippah County. I swear we say that same airplane in your video. It broke up the almost hypnotic monotony of the Delta highway we were on. I need to get down to Greenwood and visit that church.
I have been told on good accounts that the area depicted as the "crossroads" are incorrect but rather more of a memorial. Granted at that time, I am sure the whole town looked different
I think the actual crossroads where Robert went, were right down the road from Dockery farms. That seems the most probable being that it's close to where he lived and ran away from.
Very cool. Me being a big Blues fan I knew about Robert and his story. It was so cool to actually see it on video. Thanks for that Micah. I love your vids.
The guitar Robert Johnson is holding in the pic was purchased in Caruthersville, MO. There are but only a few pics of Robert Johnson that I know of. One he is holding the guitar wearing a white shirt. That pic was taken in Steele, MO.
I knew Mr. Robert Lockwood Jr., if you know your Blues then you know he was the only person taught by Robert Johnson, whom was his Step Father. He took the Jr. in respect to Mr. Johnson. This was finally proven by the exhumed Helena Arkansas censuses. He was one of my mentors along with DC Carnes whom played with him as second guitar for 17 years. We had done a bit of a Pilgrimage from Nashville, Memphis, Sun Records, Beale St, WC Handy Ground Zero, Cat Fish Records, Riverside Motel, Clarksdale & all the rest ending up joining him & his All Stars band at the Helena Heritage Blues Fest in Oct.2006, just shortly before he passed & received his long awaited Grammy. He told me where the real crossroads are the dirt one is the Crossroads according to Robert Lockwood. While we were there, he said he was in the cemetery at the Little Mt. Zion Church at the end of Old Money Road. He said he was under a spit pecan tree, and sure enough he was EXACTLY where Mr. Robert said he was. We paid our respects. I took home some pecan leaves, that I ended up putting in with Mr. Robert when we laid him to rest. The Cemetery you are at under the pecan tree is his final resting place according to his step child Robert Lockwood Jr.
I was there too, but according to locals I talked too it was old highway 49.....Which is outside of town in an empty field, more in line with the movie
I never realised until now that Robert Johnson was one of the famous 27 club... Musicians that died aged 27.. Hendrix.. Joplin.. Jones.. Morrison Cobain etc... Maybe Johnson was the first of this club..
I loved the first part of your video. I found this spot many years ago; before there was a proper monument and the sign in the driveway. However, your latter video is incorrect. That is a tourist sign; where you are in Clarksdale. The REAL crossroads is situated in the middle of a field in Beulah Mississippi. Very hard to find; but we were directed there by s local.
Good video. A great shame that people going to "pay their respects" also have to litter the site with their beer cans afterwards. If this continues the church would be quite within their rights to stop people visiting in the future - which would spoil it for the rest of us.
@@thestickupkhid_ There are offerings at his gravesite of whiskey and things Robert enjoyed. That's not the issue. A few feet from his grave there are beer cans and old McDonald's cups which is the litter everyone is referring to. It's disrespectful
Great video, Micah! My grandmother was born in Mattson, about 5½ miles south of Hopson Plantation which is south of Clarksdale (and the Crossroads?). Now I have that Eric Clapton song stuck in my head! That’s the one written by Robert Johnson? I bet the movie O Brother How Art Thou sparked much interest in the Robert Johnson story and Mississippi. I visited Mattson and Hopson in 2000, before the MS Blues Trail existed I think. O Brother came out around then too.
According to Dave honeyboy Edwards, Robert Johnson actually died in one of the rooms on the star of the west plantation & his body brought here for buriel & that is not the robert johnson crossroads, the ones that Robert Johnson was said to have used are in Dockery, Mississippi.
YES!!! I noticed it on another darker image of the same photo on the web. This one looks more alien like, but the one on the web, which is more like the original would be, darker and not so clear, is freaken scary. I $&#% u not it's as if the devil himself was ready for the camera. That Picture to me, is proof, as to him selling his soul. Especially since it's the only other photo ever taken of him. There's only two actual photos of him in existence.
November 2012 & I finally get to the Deep South & see Robert Johnson’s last resting place... moving along to the crossroads & I’m thinking, ok where’s the ‘guitars sign’ then? Asking a local trader, he tells me “it’s down for maintenance work”. Coming from North London for a Blues Trail trip of a lifetime, I could only think ‘I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time!’
Many people will think that the devil isn't real and that this story isn't legit but it is legit and there is truly a God in this world repent now because jesus loves all of you.
Jessie Blanton that’s not the actual one that Robert did it that’s the one his older brother tommy Johnson sold his soul at the one Robert did it at was very close by and is still a dirt crossroad and is about a quarter mile away from the memorial
Son House ran Robert Johnson off from Dockery Farms. There's a dirt cross roads near there that many locals believe are the actual cross roads. It's just outside Dockery Farms. I'm born and raised in Mississippi with family stretched from one end to the other. Spent a lifetime in the Delta every summer as a kid. It hasn't changed much in 2020 either. What's considered the real cross roads to Mississippi folks is still dirt roads actually. I just took my 12 year old daughter there a week ago. Gotta keep the history alive with the next generation. Glad to see more than is country folk looking to keep history alive.
I never find reference to the fact that it was stated that he was poisoned by the bar owner who's wife Robert was involved with. He never took an open bottle of whisky from anyone but that night he did, I got that from a documentary about him with his sister in it. It's such a shame because he really was such an amazing talent, devil or no devil.. I think he just saw music differently than others. They say he played his guitar like he would the piano... Not sure, just things you read along the way. I would love to visit his grave and give honor to him for being the OG of the blues and rock and roll that followed. RIP Robert Johnson, you were and are blessed.
It was actually Tommy Johnson who met the devil, he was at the crossroads in the middle of the night and a big black guy appears and asks to see his guitar, tunes it and hands it back. Tommy was a troubled man who lived to tell the tale. Robert was a young fella with his whole life ahead of him when he got killed.
Did Beelzebub make you any deals while you were there? And people could pay more respects by taking their trash with them. I get the things left on or near the headstone, but the crap by the log. Jeez.
My family and I are doing a road trip in September (from the UK), I'm a bit of a blues fan and would love to visit these spots. Do you have exact location of the Zion Church/burial place (for Sat nav)? Also, many claim that the actual crossroads are somewhere else. I'm sure I have seen recent videos claiming to be the real crossroads, but they are on dusty roads, not an intersection. Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
I don't think there been any DNA tests but I'm from Mississippi and anybody around here will tell you that's the spot. The crossroads is different than what they say it wasn't actuality at 61 & 49, but was actually just outside Dockery Farms, which was where Son House said he run him off from when he disappeared. When he was seen again only a few months later, he was the greatest guitar player anyone around has ever heard.
I'm puzzled about Robert's gift. If he was a lousy guitar player, and everyone wanted him to stop the racket, then how did he learn to play the guitar so well? I'd like to believe he ran into someone who taught him how to play better. Nah, it takes longer than six to eight months to play music you've never heard before, which was what Robert supposedly did. Didn't need practicing. Just picked up on the music by ear. We'll never know.
I learned how to play guitar in 2 1/2 months. Hard work and dedication will do that. I absolutely believe in soul selling, illuminati, ect...but who knows the truth. Don't count him out
Taylor you might have been able to learn a couple of songs in 2 1/2 months but this guy was playing songs that he had just heard like nothing, and if you did they had a way worse learning span back in the 30s it’s like comparing extra terrestrials tech to our modern day tech and I don’t believe people of color had a good education back then because of racism so if he was white I could understand but because of the place he came from and how bad he was it doesn’t add up without a pact with the devil
He also played in a unique style that no one could figure out at the time. He would even turn his back while playing so people couldn’t see how it was done.
Robert said the devil made a deal with him he went to the crossroads and got down in one knee and held his guitar up to the sky and he said the devil said “ once I give you back this gituar your soul is mine” and the devil tuned it and gave it back to him and he took his soul...
I wouldn't say the gravesite is "littered". People make the trip to pay respects to the man and music. The tributes they leave are done so in a respectful way. It's not people showing up, partying and leaving bottles and cans everywhere.
I did that same thing here recently... rode around the delta looking for that spot. I'm more inclined to think it was an intersection near Dockery Farms just east of Cleveland. Here's my video on it. th-cam.com/video/7Oy3n0xfuVE/w-d-xo.html
Did Robert Johnson actually sell his soul to play his music??? Well only Robert and the Devil, well and God. As for the rest of us. We'll never know for sure!!! No one is actually 100% sure where the crossroads are, or where Robert is actually buried. Plaques and tombstones tell the legend but no one is actually sure. Personally when he disappeared I think he practiced and got good at his trade. I don't think he would have needed to sell his soul. Lyrics are lyrics and legends sell music. Although, being that I wasn't there either he could have and being that the greatest feat the devil ever pulled off was convincing the world he doesn't exist. And as for the crossroads, the devil will find you for a proposition. So any one who may have run across the devil, they may not have needed a crossroad. The crossroads are symbolic in following God or Following the other!!!
When he was alive they shunned him.Now that he's dead he's a hero. People are so"fickle".He needed love when he was alive.Maybe his talent would've taken a healthier direction.Too little, too late...Especially from the people of God.The devil doesn't play.Make deals,he'll make you pay...🤔
MySecretMachine the place this guy visited was the place Roberts older brother sold his soul at tommy Johnson and the place Robert did it is still a dirt road close by about a quarter mile away from that memorial if your interested in making a deal
Elvis died 39 years later on the exact same day! btw you went to the tourist attraction Crossroads. That one didn't even exist in 1938 when Robert was alive. The real one is down the road and out in the middle of nowhere.
That’s the place where his older brother sold his soul tommy Johnson the place he did it is actually pretty close to there and it’s still a dirt cross road about a quarter mile out from the main road where u saw the cross road signs
Tommy was another Johnson from Crystal Springs, right down the road from where Robert was born in Hazlehurst. I know cause I'm related to both. Im from cs
I doubt the crossroads is at 49 and 61. Go to Dockery Farms then straight across the highway down that road. I think it's called. Lusk Road. Down past the grave yard. It's down there.
Yea, like "selling your soul to the devil" is so ridiculous! Bod Dillan said on TV he sold his soul, as did SO many musicians, movie stars, rappers & sports stars! They've come out a SAID that right on video!
Listen. I think anyone who states whether in song. Poem etc bout sellin their souls to d devil. I wud believe it to be trueee. Y d hell wud u tell somtin like dat if it wasnt true. N he wud turn his bk to d audience while playin d Guitar. I am not sayin dis is truee. But think bout it.
Man didn't sell his soul he practiced for 3 year. He wrote Most of those songs because people condemned him for listening and playing "devil music". Its actually kinda sad.
That is the crossroads for tourist, not the real crossroads! The city put it there to drive tourist into the city instead of to an out of the way rural location.
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It wasn’t THAT many years ago when The Crossroads was out in the middle of nowhere. I liked it better then.
The real Crossroads wasn’t in the Delta. He was in Copiah county (central MS) when he did the meeting at the crossroads with ol Nick.
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people come down to "pay their respects" to the man by leaving their garbage lying all over the damn place. Come on people please HAVE some respect.
He ain't no got damn legend he soul his soul to the devil that shit ain't cool so my he rest in shit on bloods
@@dannycarter8327 dude this are you a fucking Jesus freak or something he is a legend
@@charliebranson677 Hey man I believe in jesus christ and the word of god. I also love Robert Johnson's music. I would still pay respect to the dead.
You're a moron, show some respect dude...it was a myth man..they said that about guitarist back in those days...he simply took a year off and practiced his ass off..no soul selling happened
@@joshburk3843 There is an interview, right here on youtube, with Honeyboy Edwards, who says that Robert Johnson told him he sold himself to the devil...Is it true, I don't know, but he wrote stuff about it, and it certainly adds to the legend...... a religious channel called Goodfight ministries has a part of the interview, as well as one with Son House talking about it.......... again, I'm not saying it happened......it would be pretty crappy to have worked as hard as he must have and then 'ole scratch' gets the credit.
I think Robert Johnson died doing what he loved. He wasn't trying to live the richest lifestyle, he only wanted to be good at what he loved. Today, for a lot of musicians, it is about the money, and not for the love of the art. Some ppl can take a lesson from this story.
Can anybody get me the address of this place?
Real shit!
@@lifestyle6993 I can, but I won't.
No matter the reason, he's burning in hell right now because of it. Is eternity worth it?
Should look up GoodFight Ministries they have a good video on him as well as other musicians.
Everybody gangster till a dude be sitting on the side of the road with a guitar....
The crossroads is on Dockery Farms Road. Actually two dirt roads that intersect with the tree in the corner of one of the intersects.
He got three gravesites. I don’t know why but it says so on the web. They weren’t sure where his body really lays so therefore he got three graves. What a legend. R.I.P Robert.
The devil took him
Thet do that with alot of famous people. Crazy people like to dig up graves just to say they have a famous persons bones.
Being buried three times is a freemasonic ritual representing a counterfeit resurrection
they need to build a swimming pool size- bbq fire pit with very hot live lava flowing, to remind everyone that his soul is now a property of the devil. he's down there suffering. May God, Holy Spirit, and Jesus have mercy on his soul, give him another chance.
3 grave site? You mean he made 3 different horcruxes….
Any videos of anyone going there with guitar at Midnight?
I would think that if it were true someone would have tried and filmed it.
3 am
@@michaelcruz4570 I think it would usually be 3 am yeah.
@@deathcreeps6227 story is a little before midnight. So you're not late.
Steve Vai and Ralph Macio should make a video about this place!!.... i wonder what happen to that willie guy!!
I've always wanted to visit the famous Crossroads. It's so cool to see you there and to discover that the location ofJohnson's grave is close by.
Tampa Jay yeah man I found it back in 2008 or 2009.. it took forever to find it back then!
I'm good, messing with evil only gives you grief.
Us southerners know better than to tamper with things like that, whats understand doesnt need to be explained shouldnt entertain those things because the devil is real
Man i love Robert Johnson. I am so glad that even in the beginning of 2024 he is well known.
Even so many years later, he is immortal. The deal has been made.
My son and I just went to Clarksdale to the Crossroads and then down to Dockery Farms Plantation before journeying East over to Grenada and then back up North to my relatives home in Tippah County. I swear we say that same airplane in your video. It broke up the almost hypnotic monotony of the Delta highway we were on. I need to get down to Greenwood and visit that church.
You feel he could never have dreamed all this curiosity of his music and life
Probably not man what a crazy thing to have all this happen after you’re gone...
I have been told on good accounts that the area depicted as the "crossroads" are incorrect but rather more of a memorial. Granted at that time, I am sure the whole town looked different
I think the actual crossroads where Robert went, were right down the road from Dockery farms. That seems the most probable being that it's close to where he lived and ran away from.
@@rrguitar1 That's where I always read it was. I read the place where they have the memorial is not it.
Very cool. Me being a big Blues fan I knew about Robert and his story. It was so cool to actually see it on video. Thanks for that Micah. I love your vids.
DizJake Buxton thank you for watching! I’m glad I could share it with you!
I’m in Southaven Mississippi love this story
Thankful for Mr. Johnson’s God given gift, and that he shared it with the world,
He got his gift from somewhere apart from heaven but he is still a absolute hell of a guitar player and an even better muisician
The guitar Robert Johnson is holding in the pic was purchased in Caruthersville, MO. There are but only a few pics of Robert Johnson that I know of. One he is holding the guitar wearing a white shirt. That pic was taken in Steele, MO.
I wanna go there…. Thanks for sharing 👍🏽
I need to check out I'm not far from Clarksdale but I have been to Hopson Plantation and the crossroad where Muddy water Robert Johnson cross the road
I’m watching the movie Phoenix with Ray lotta & Britney Murphy and I heard Robert Johnson song wow
I knew Mr. Robert Lockwood Jr., if you know your Blues then you know he was the only person taught by Robert Johnson, whom was his Step Father. He took the Jr. in respect to Mr. Johnson. This was finally proven by the exhumed Helena Arkansas censuses. He was one of my mentors along with DC Carnes whom played with him as second guitar for 17 years. We had done a bit of a Pilgrimage from Nashville, Memphis, Sun Records, Beale St, WC Handy Ground Zero, Cat Fish Records, Riverside Motel, Clarksdale & all the rest ending up joining him & his All Stars band at the Helena Heritage Blues Fest in Oct.2006, just shortly before he passed & received his long awaited Grammy. He told me where the real crossroads are the dirt one is the Crossroads according to Robert Lockwood. While we were there, he said he was in the cemetery at the Little Mt. Zion Church at the end of Old Money Road. He said he was under a spit pecan tree, and sure enough he was EXACTLY where Mr. Robert said he was. We paid our respects. I took home some pecan leaves, that I ended up putting in with Mr. Robert when we laid him to rest. The Cemetery you are at under the pecan tree is his final resting place according to his step child Robert Lockwood Jr.
I was there too, but according to locals I talked too it was old highway 49.....Which is outside of town in an empty field, more in line with the movie
I'm not a Blues fan but this was a very interesting video. Thanks so much for sharing his story.
Photo Gear Fun thank you so much! I’m glad I made it interesting!
How are you not a blues fan
He didnt make any deal. He was dedicated and learned like everyone else
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There's debate about whether the Crossroads was the Clarksdale site or another far less commercial area.
Very interesting video. I would love to visit this place someday. Smokey Binion, Jr.
Great tour! I live in Australia so i'll never get there in person myself! Thanks!
that sign is not where the intersection of the two highways was when Robert was alive. The real site is about two miles away
I never realised until now that Robert Johnson was one of the famous 27 club... Musicians that died aged 27.. Hendrix.. Joplin.. Jones.. Morrison Cobain etc... Maybe Johnson was the first of this club..
I loved the first part of your video. I found this spot many years ago; before there was a proper monument and the sign in the driveway. However, your latter video is incorrect. That is a tourist sign; where you are in Clarksdale. The REAL crossroads is situated in the middle of a field in Beulah Mississippi. Very hard to find; but we were directed there by s local.
Good stuff! Thanks for that bit of history.
brianne mills thanks! I’m trying to spice it up a bit when I can!
Sad he sold his soul. Hopefully in the end he trusted in the Lord Jesus. If not....well...he still ain't happy and wont ever be.
He started the 27 club I see
Nope, there's a video about that very thing here on youtube, give it a watch.
Yes, yes he did
@@Jarl3169 nope
Robert Johnson made a deal with the devil at the intersection of highways 49 and 61, not 161 and 49. Surprising that no one has noticed that before.
Yea, i thought it was 61 and 49, myself.
Good video. A great shame that people going to "pay their respects" also have to litter the site with their beer cans afterwards. If this continues the church would be quite within their rights to stop people visiting in the future - which would spoil it for the rest of us.
Bro Whiskey Was Robert’s Favorite. Stop Being So Fucking Sensitive.
For the rest of us? Who are you speaking for… Nothing spoils anything for the rest of us we all control our own destiny’s just like this man did
@@thestickupkhid_ There are offerings at his gravesite of whiskey and things Robert enjoyed. That's not the issue. A few feet from his grave there are beer cans and old McDonald's cups which is the litter everyone is referring to. It's disrespectful
Great video, Micah! My grandmother was born in Mattson, about 5½ miles south of Hopson Plantation which is south of Clarksdale (and the Crossroads?). Now I have that Eric Clapton song stuck in my head! That’s the one written by Robert Johnson? I bet the movie O Brother How Art Thou sparked much interest in the Robert Johnson story and Mississippi. I visited Mattson and Hopson in 2000, before the MS Blues Trail existed I think. O Brother came out around then too.
According to Dave honeyboy Edwards, Robert Johnson actually died in one of the rooms on the star of the west plantation & his body brought here for buriel & that is not the robert johnson crossroads, the ones that Robert Johnson was said to have used are in Dockery, Mississippi.
Nice Marker
That's so cool. I wanted to do that.
Like rip Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Robert Johnson and I'm fan of blue rock and hard rock and metal into Tony iommi my favorite guitarists .
has anybody ever notice the face beside Robert at 0:55 ????
Yeah are you thinking what i'm thinking😯😯😯
YES!!! I noticed it on another darker image of the same photo on the web. This one looks more alien like, but the one on the web, which is more like the original would be, darker and not so clear, is freaken scary. I $&#% u not it's as if the devil himself was ready for the camera. That Picture to me, is proof, as to him selling his soul. Especially since it's the only other photo ever taken of him. There's only two actual photos of him in existence.
@@anthonyherrera8610 what!!? I don't see the face please help me!!!!!!!😁
The crossroads are IN CLARKSDALE Mississippi
November 2012 & I finally get to the Deep South & see Robert Johnson’s last resting place... moving along to the crossroads & I’m thinking, ok where’s the ‘guitars sign’ then? Asking a local trader, he tells me “it’s down for maintenance work”. Coming from North London for a Blues Trail trip of a lifetime, I could only think ‘I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time!’
Nicely done.
Many people will think that the devil isn't real and that this story isn't legit but it is legit and there is truly a God in this world repent now because jesus loves all of you.
SUPERNATURAL talked about him
I was there in March 2019. It was pouring rain. We had to stand in puddles in the cemetery
Intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 8 in Rosedale is the place
I am going there.
The BBQ at that place where you parked at the crossroads is some of the best I ever had. Check it out.
Cool video man.. blues trail is on my to do soon trips.
Cool video👍
Old blue wind thank you!
Visited here in 21 played my guitar, no devil showed, no fame or fortune. Think this not the real spot. But had a blast all the same.
You must have sold your soul to be a great vlogger.
Can anybody get me the address of this place?
How does any one know where the true cross road is.
Jessie Blanton that’s not the actual one that Robert did it that’s the one his older brother tommy Johnson sold his soul at the one Robert did it at was very close by and is still a dirt crossroad and is about a quarter mile away from the memorial
Son House ran Robert Johnson off from Dockery Farms. There's a dirt cross roads near there that many locals believe are the actual cross roads. It's just outside Dockery Farms. I'm born and raised in Mississippi with family stretched from one end to the other. Spent a lifetime in the Delta every summer as a kid. It hasn't changed much in 2020 either. What's considered the real cross roads to Mississippi folks is still dirt roads actually. I just took my 12 year old daughter there a week ago. Gotta keep the history alive with the next generation. Glad to see more than is country folk looking to keep history alive.
Why does anyone actually believe a legend like this in the first place?
Highway 61 revisited
Im looking for the crosswords myself and can't find it
I never find reference to the fact that it was stated that he was poisoned by the bar owner who's wife Robert was involved with. He never took an open bottle of whisky from anyone but that night he did, I got that from a documentary about him with his sister in it.
It's such a shame because he really was such an amazing talent, devil or no devil.. I think he just saw music differently than others. They say he played his guitar like he would the piano... Not sure, just things you read along the way.
I would love to visit his grave and give honor to him for being the OG of the blues and rock and roll that followed.
RIP Robert Johnson, you were and are blessed.
The original mr. Blues Man. Where is Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai?
Pokey Porter I was wondering the same thing
Pokey Porter and Micah thx for this reference. I didn’t know about this movie before!
You mean Jack Butler
And Ry Cooder
It was actually Tommy Johnson who met the devil, he was at the crossroads in the middle of the night and a big black guy appears and asks to see his guitar, tunes it and hands it back.
Tommy was a troubled man who lived to tell the tale. Robert was a young fella with his whole life ahead of him when he got killed.
Robertjohnson king of the delta i play only his songs._.._legend
Did Beelzebub make you any deals while you were there? And people could pay more respects by taking their trash with them. I get the things left on or near the headstone, but the crap by the log. Jeez.
Savage Mister hahah I know but I guess it adds character to the experience
I’m gonna go there with my violin at midnight
My family and I are doing a road trip in September (from the UK), I'm a bit of a blues fan and would love to visit these spots. Do you have exact location of the Zion Church/burial place (for Sat nav)?
Also, many claim that the actual crossroads are somewhere else. I'm sure I have seen recent videos claiming to be the real crossroads, but they are on dusty roads, not an intersection. Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
That was great!! Are there any hotels close by and is the church/grave site, close to the crossroads??
Thanks.
Oh yes there’s plenty. I recommend the Shack Up Inn... one of the best spots in town
@@worldofmicah I'll look into it now. Thanks so much for replying!!
Iv seen some other videos about the crossroads. I tend to believe it was the dirt roads near the cemetery close to where he first tried to play.
Exactly! Down the road from dockery farms
So this is absolutely the correct resting place for Robert?
I don't think there been any DNA tests but I'm from Mississippi and anybody around here will tell you that's the spot. The crossroads is different than what they say it wasn't actuality at 61 & 49, but was actually just outside Dockery Farms, which was where Son House said he run him off from when he disappeared. When he was seen again only a few months later, he was the greatest guitar player anyone around has ever heard.
Sam Chatmon blue singer site in Hollandale MS
I was there last week and I sure hope you had some BBQ at Abe's. The tamales were red hot.
I'm puzzled about Robert's gift. If he was a lousy guitar player, and everyone wanted him to stop the racket, then how did he learn to play the guitar so well? I'd like to believe he ran into someone who taught him how to play better. Nah, it takes longer than six to eight months to play music you've never heard before, which was what Robert supposedly did. Didn't need practicing. Just picked up on the music by ear. We'll never know.
He said that the devil grabbed his guitar and tuned it for him and gave it back to him
I learned how to play guitar in 2 1/2 months. Hard work and dedication will do that.
I absolutely believe in soul selling, illuminati, ect...but who knows the truth.
Don't count him out
Taylor you might have been able to learn a couple of songs in 2 1/2 months but this guy was playing songs that he had just heard like nothing, and if you did they had a way worse learning span back in the 30s it’s like comparing extra terrestrials tech to our modern day tech and I don’t believe people of color had a good education back then because of racism so if he was white I could understand but because of the place he came from and how bad he was it doesn’t add up without a pact with the devil
He also played in a unique style that no one could figure out at the time. He would even turn his back while playing so people couldn’t see how it was done.
Robert said the devil made a deal with him he went to the crossroads and got down in one knee and held his guitar up to the sky and he said the devil said “ once I give you back this gituar your soul is mine” and the devil tuned it and gave it back to him and he took his soul...
I wouldn't say the gravesite is "littered". People make the trip to pay respects to the man and music. The tributes they leave are done so in a respectful way. It's not people showing up, partying and leaving bottles and cans everywhere.
I did that same thing here recently... rode around the delta looking for that spot. I'm more inclined to think it was an intersection near Dockery Farms just east of Cleveland. Here's my video on it. th-cam.com/video/7Oy3n0xfuVE/w-d-xo.html
Did Robert Johnson actually sell his soul to play his music??? Well only Robert and the Devil, well and God. As for the rest of us. We'll never know for sure!!! No one is actually 100% sure where the crossroads are, or where Robert is actually buried. Plaques and tombstones tell the legend but no one is actually sure. Personally when he disappeared I think he practiced and got good at his trade. I don't think he would have needed to sell his soul. Lyrics are lyrics and legends sell music. Although, being that I wasn't there either he could have and being that the greatest feat the devil ever pulled off was convincing the world he doesn't exist. And as for the crossroads, the devil will find you for a proposition. So any one who may have run across the devil, they may not have needed a crossroad. The crossroads are symbolic in following God or Following the other!!!
Where can I find his grave may I have the location
Money Rd in near greenwood Mississippi. Little zion missionary Baptist Church
He went to Arkansas and learned under Ike Zimmerman.
When he was alive they shunned him.Now that he's dead he's a hero. People are so"fickle".He needed love when he was alive.Maybe his talent would've taken a healthier direction.Too little, too late...Especially from the people of God.The devil doesn't play.Make deals,he'll make you pay...🤔
In my mind I thought the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 was some dirt roads in the middle of nowhere... well maybe it was back then ...
MySecretMachine the place this guy visited was the place Roberts older brother sold his soul at tommy Johnson and the place Robert did it is still a dirt road close by about a quarter mile away from that memorial if your interested in making a deal
@@Imdanku I see! Thanks for the info :-)
Im2dank4u 2003 Robert and tommy Johnson are unrelated
@@Imdanku Dowsn thea road from dockery farms right?
Can anybody get me the address of this place?
Elvis died 39 years later on the exact same day! btw you went to the tourist attraction Crossroads. That one didn't even exist in 1938 when Robert was alive. The real one is down the road and out in the middle of nowhere.
Highways 161 and 49.
That’s the place where his older brother sold his soul tommy Johnson the place he did it is actually pretty close to there and it’s still a dirt cross road about a quarter mile out from the main road where u saw the cross road signs
Im2dank4u 2003 Tommy Johnson was not related to him. Unlike Robert, he made no secret of the idea that he made a deal with Old Scratch.
Tommy was another Johnson from Crystal Springs, right down the road from where Robert was born in Hazlehurst. I know cause I'm related to both. Im from cs
I doubt the crossroads is at 49 and 61. Go to Dockery Farms then straight across the highway down that road. I think it's called. Lusk Road. Down past the grave yard. It's down there.
XxSoulFlyxX you know it the place they showed in this video is actually where his older brother tommy Johnson sold his soul
Yea, like "selling your soul to the devil" is so ridiculous! Bod Dillan said on TV he sold his soul, as did SO many musicians, movie stars, rappers & sports stars! They've come out a SAID that right on video!
Hate to bring race into this but we need more good respected people like u and family from a black man stay safe.
There are 3 grave sites. Is this the real one? I'll take your word for it. This sounds official.
From what I was told from a local this is the real spot
@@worldofmicah This place looks and sounds right. Keep these coming.
$1.00? his ghost will haunt you for that donation.
steve crandall is that you?
Thanks for another informative video, I had it confused with the "devil went down to Georgia" song. Are they related?
Probably inspired by this tale? You know you hear a lot about this subject in southern songs
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You have to go to the main desert it's a landmark dedicated you need to go to the real spot
Listen. I think anyone who states whether in song. Poem etc bout sellin their souls to d devil. I wud believe it to be trueee. Y d hell wud u tell somtin like dat if it wasnt true. N he wud turn his bk to d audience while playin d Guitar. I am not sayin dis is truee. But think bout it.
Lots of Urban Legend around Robert Johnson’s actual gravesite...there’s actually up to three sites that claim to be it.
I think the empty beer cans and McDonald's cups is very disrespectful to Mr Johnsons grave
Man didn't sell his soul he practiced for 3 year. He wrote Most of those songs because people condemned him for listening and playing "devil music". Its actually kinda sad.
That is the crossroads for tourist, not the real crossroads! The city put it there to drive tourist into the city instead of to an out of the way rural location.
If the devil's deal legend were true, it would probably have happened in another quieter crossroad and closer to Dockery don you think?
Yup exactly...the real crossroads are near dockery
I don't think he's resting where he's at..
Thats not the cross roads it wasn't even there in the 30s hwy 61 and 49 was built later after Robert passed
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August 16th is Elvis’ death too
That's not the actual spot
That isn't the actual crossroads.