History week, whenever i is riding on the Mississippi River into a newspaper assignment, I got an interested knowledge of Rosedale, Mississippi. Once i try food dinner within the an area titled Leo’s Field, a waitress asserted that Rosedale is where where the epic bluesman Robert Johnson ended up selling their spirit on the devil inturn to own tunes wizard (a conference alluded so you’re able to for the – certainly other places – the brand new Cohen brothers’ motion picture Oh Sister, In which Ways Thou).

Since if to prove they, the newest waitress passed me personally a beneficial wrinkled, keyed in transcription from a great “vision” regarding Johnson’s fateful time that had seemed to bluesman Henry Goodman when he try travelling the trail away from Rosedale so you’re able to Anguila. For the sake of posterity (and since I have not witnessed they somewhere else), I’m publishing Goodman’s “vision” completely below, along with an effective postscript of the Rosedale’s Crossroads Blues Neighborhood.

Interestingly, there are many more contenders regarding the misconception away pretty Chita women from Robert Johnson’s demon-purchased soul – while the crossroads of us 61 and United states forty-two from inside the Clarksdale is the perfect place extremely blues visitors shell out the areas (the Romantics record album is known as “” ergo). Continue reading »