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May 25, 2012 06:51 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WVDXBt0Ypns/robert-johnson-meets-the-devil.html
Robert Johnson meets the Devil, or not
It's perhaps the most famous story in the history of the blues: In the 1920s, a mediocre guitarist named Robert Johnson went to a Mississippi crossroads at midnight where the Devil "tuned" his guitar in exchange for Johnson's soul. Assuming that the story may be, well, apocryphal, who made it up? Radiolab investigated. "Crossroads" (Radiolab)Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WVDXBt0Ypns/robert-johnson-meets-the-devil.html
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