CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Listen up Preview: Big Head Blues Club, Featuring B.B. King, “Crossroads Blues” (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads Blues” remains one of the most terrifying, wonder-filled songs, even if you don’t know the oft-told tale of how the doomed Mississippi bluesman became so proficient so quickly at playing his guitar. It’s one of the reasons that, despite the brevity of his time on this earth—born about 1910 and dead by 1938, likely poisoned by a lover’s jealous mate …

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