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"Sinners" director Ryan Coogler comes down to Clarksdale, Miss., to host a series of special series of film that's based off ...
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The Blues Trail - Mississippi to Louisiana - sign by the Louisiana Delta Music Museum in Ferriday ... Or you can find the "Crossroads" where Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil ...
The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.
“It has to do with that relationship that Delta Blues has with its kinda like ... re not the first people to make a song called ‘Crossroads,’” he said, referring to his favorite ’90s ...
As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...
Delta blues music, a style born in the Mississippi ... who supposedly sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads near Clarksdale for musical talent, speak to the music’s deep connection to ...
Mississippi-born Robert Johnson is known as the King of the Delta Blues. Legend has it that he was a decent musician until he met the Devil at the Crossroads and sold his soul. After that ...
As the story goes, Johnson met the devil at a crossroads and sold his soul in ... Coogler’s love for Delta blues permeates the film, with a soundtrack of slide guitar and harmonica weaving ...