Johnson, feeling bad and lonesome knows folks up the highway in Gunnison. Approaching the crossroads just south of Rosedale.
Big trees all around dark and lonesome road, a demented poisoned dog howling and carping in a ditch at the side of the road. Robert Johnson’s thoughts were about Son House preaching to him, “Put that guitar down, boy, you drivin’ people nuts.” Robert Johnson needing as always a woman and some whiskey.
#Devil at the crossroads song full#
It was a cool October night, full moon big up the dark sky. Under his own steam he walked up the highway, guitar in his hand propped over his shoulder. When his ride left him out on a road near to the levee. Robert Johnson had been playing down in Yazoo City and over at Beulah trying to get back up to Helena. Not an iota of this proves much about Robert Johnson’s crossroads, of course, but I for one like the idea that it happened in Rosedale. It was also covered by Led Zeppelin whose more well known “Lemon Song” notably steals a lyric from that same Johnson tune, “You can squeeze my lemon ’til the juice runs down my leg”. “Traveling Riverside Blues” had a enormous influence on rock n roll, and was remade as “Crossroads” by Eric Clapton which mentions Rosedale with the same expression Johnson uses. “Lord, I’m goin’ to Rosedale,” he wails, “gon’ take my rider by my side.” He was born in Hazlehurst, and his supposed grave is in Quito near Itta Bena but Rosedale did figure in the lyrics for one of Johnson’s most famous songs, “Travelling Riverside Blues”. The scene of Johnson’s crossroads deal is not exactly something that can be proven. Robert Johnson and his legendary crossroads deal with the devil, in which he sold his immortal soul for musical genius on blues guitar, is deeply embedded in the mythology and legend of the rural South and is one of the best known tales of American folklore. Rosedale Mississippi, where the crossroads of highways US 61 and US 49 in Clarksdale.
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