In Search of the Crossroads

Marion Walter Jacobs' (Little Walter) "Little Girl" interpreted by Bharath and his Rhythm Four of Montréal from their latest CD entitled Friday Night Fatty (Bharath Rajakumar, Colin Perry, Mark Peetsma and Ben Caissie joined by Junior Watson) and set to road footage across the Mississippi delta on a search for the real crossroads over many many miles, days and nights.....

TheRhythmFour.com

Footage by Paul Mérineau, Montréal, Québec

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mississippi
• delta
• blues
• highway
• 61
• bharath
• rhythm
• four
• junior
• watson
• hopson
• commissary
• little
• walter

[MyManDan]

this is an awesome fucking video

[gingereades]

i dig this!

[tatethompson1234]

As soon as it started I see him drinking a beer while on the highway. Awsome..lol Great vid

[jensen895]

All his songs tell the truth "hell hound on my trail" "crossrod blues"

Also people have said he died of strychnine poisoning and thats what they named his death , but "This observation was also noted in a recent Guitar World comment from contemporary David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who said that it couldn't have been strychnine, since he would have died much sooner than the three days he suffered."

[twalling]

@NevrSilent My theory on Robert Johnson's improvement in playing skill was the availablity of recordings of other guitar players... something new at the time. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if RJ bought up or borrowed a bunch of Blind Lemon Jefferson albums and copped a bunch of licks while, as you said, woodshedding. I haven't read all the comments here, but has anybody mentioned it was TOMMY Johnson who allegedly sold his soul, not ROBERT?

[NevrSilent]

It's not that Robert Johnson didn't know how to play guitar at all, and then 6 mos. later was some kind of master. In real life, he had learned to play, but was not very skilled, and, as anyone knows about the blues, it's not the number of notes you know, but how you play them. Johnson spent those 6 mos. hardcore 'woodshedding' is likely, doing nothing but practice and learn his feel. The legend of the 'Crossroads' was just for good showmanship...

[TheTallMan35]

@tp9337 I think "selling your soul" is a metaphor for doing business with shady people in exchange for wealth and fame. I don't take it literally either.

[tp9337]

@TheTallMan35 im not religous at all nor do i participate in the occult but u dont think its weird that this man did not know how to play the guitar at all and in 6 months he became a master. he himsself and his brother said that "he sold his soul" and there have been too many artists in recent times who have said the same thing so even tho im not spiritual i cant ignore what these ppl have said about themselves

[rockermetalhead1200]

4:41 THE BLUES MOBILE!!!

[HISTORYBUFFPA]

You coulda' submitted this to a short film fest.

Nice job.

[journeyer58]

Absolutely Great Video. Finding the Crossroads is almost impossible for no one really knows where Robert Johnson really 'sold his soul to the Devil.'

In the movie Crossroads, Papa Legba was the personification of what the Devil represented.

[TheTallMan35]

This legend was greatly exaggerated as time went on. Back in those days, the vast majority of Mississippi Delta folks were uneducated, superstitious and prone to think irrationally. But if people insist on believing in this myth, I say let them have their cookies. Who are we to take that from them?  Fundamentally, we all have a primal desire to believe in something that is beyond our realm.

--An educated black man capable of rational thinking.