“If you want to learn how to make songs yourself, you take your guitar and your go to where the road crosses that way, where a crossroads is. Get there be sure to get there just a little ‘ fore 12 that night so you know you’ll be there. You have your guitar and be playing a piece there by yourself…A big black man will walk up there and take your guitar and he’ll tune it. And then he’ll play a piece and hand it back to you. That’s the way I learned to play anything I want.”
Who said that?
Why, Mr. Johnson said that. Yes, yes...but...it was Tommy Johnson not Robert who told this particular tale of going down to the crossroads.
Lots of common ground between these two down to the whimsical Hollywood interpretations and it would be tough to pick one against the other.
One thing is for sure though, if you asked for water and she gave you gasoline, the blues would fall down like hail.
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