Crossroads The Life And Afterlife Of Blues Legend Robert Johnson Tom Graves by Tom Graves instant download after payment.

When Robert Johnson was younger, he liked to go to the juke joints and listen to musicians like Son House. It wasn’t long before Johnson began playing guitar in-between sets, a performance few people appreciated. “Robert, he’d get the guitar and go to bamming with it, you know?”. House told a writer years later. “Just keeping noise, and the people didn’t like that. They’d come and tell us, ‘Why don’t you or Willie [Brown] go in there and stop that boy? He’s driving everybody nuts’”. Two years later, when House heard Johnson play again, he couldn’t believe the change. “And that boy got started off playing, and when he got through, all our mouths were standing open. All! He was gone!”.
How did Johnson become so good so fast? He made a pact with the devil at the crossroads, according to legend. Several years later Johnson died of mysterious causes. He was only 27. The devil, some say, came to collect his soul as payment.
In this new, highly readable biography of Johnson’s life, music critic and novelist Tom Graves gives you the real story behind the “Crossroads Legend”. But the debunking of that myth doesn’t lessen the appreciation that contemporary musicians and blues fans have of Johnson, who is said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived.