Crossroads: Devious Entertainment Agreement Deals

Special Guest Contribution Written by TheRR

Greetings Children…

It’s bedtime, so let’s get our Milf and Cookies

and let’s pray our every night bedtime prayer;

(This is the original prayer,

first popularized in The New England Primer in 1737)

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

If I should die before I wake,

I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Amen.

And now I’m going to tell You all a bedtime story before You go to sleep kids,

and have sweet dreams…

Sooo…

Once upon a time in the strange brew of the technicolor psychedelic late 1960’s….

On March 10th, 1968, at the fabled Winterland in San Francisco, California

at their 1st show was the English Supergroup,

Cream…

A trio of virtuoso Rock musicians that went on to Superstardom

Starring…

Drummer ~ Ginger Baker,

Bassist/Songwriter ~ Jack Bruce,

Guitarist ~ Eric Clapton…

And they did a famous live cover song at the Winterland,

singing this strange haunting old Blues song that appeared on their Wheels of Fire album,

by old Mississippi Blues legend Robert Johnson,

titled “Crossroads”…

And so kids, here’s original by Johnson himself

that was primo 1930’s

Mississippi Delta Blues…

And the famous 1986 movie “Crossroads” was even named after that song and the subject matter of the song!

So what’s the Crossroads mean anyway?

The legend goes clear back to Africa and the Yoruba Tribe…

That people could go to a crossroads to contact spirits called the Orisha gods and goddesses…

An Orisha (also spelled Orisa or Yorisha) is a spirit, deity, or divine energy in the Yoruba religion of West Africa

that represents natural forces, phenomena, and human traits.

They are viewed as emissaries of the supreme creator, Olodumare,

acting as intermediaries who protect, guide, and interact with humans in daily life.

Well several things about the oldie fabled Crossroads…

So Clarksdale in Mississippi was a hub of Black music and culture before the 1930’s Dust Bowl incident destroyed cotton down south

And this caused the biggest migration of Blacks from the wasted South

taking their music and culture with them to American cities nationwide!

That’s HOW they got prompted to move to American cities to find jobs…

Robert Johnson was just one ill-fated Blues musician who was part of the Clarksdale, Mississippi scene.

He may well have gone to the Crossroad to seek the Orishas and deal with them.

But it’s widely believed that Robert Johnson went to the crossroads to make a deal with the Devil himself!

Johnson deeply desired to be a great guitarist and performer, and he wanted fame and glory for it.

Musicians in the South who knew Johnson said he couldn’t play before he went to the Crossroads…

But when he came back to Clarksdale, he could play and sing and perform like nothing they’d ever seen!

It was supernatural what they saw and heard!

So WHERE is this Crossroads anyway?

Well kids…

It starts with U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) a major United States highway

that extends 1,400 miles (2,300 km) between New Orleans, Louisiana south and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota, up north.

The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River and is designated the Great River Road for all of its route.

Old Highway 61 runs all along that old Mississippi River,

but there’s an intersection with Highway 49 that’s about 18 miles north of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

It’s the only one that makes any sense WHERE the Crossroads was at that Johnson went to.

Why I even went there myself to Clarksdale 2016 to see the dilapidated old town…

and yes I also went to the Highways 61 and 49 crossroads and felt the rumbling earth energy there where powerful underground ley lines intersect at…

Heck, old famous actor Morgan Freeman grew up around Clarksdale himself and owns a Blues Bar there.

He KNOWS too…

And many famous musicians and Hollywood actors/actresses have went to that Crossroads themselves but keep very quiet about it…

Bob Dylan’s most famous album “Highway 61 Revisited” is proof that Dylan himself went there long ago to make some kinda deal with the Devil

and he even admitted it in this interview:

And in 1986 that famous movie Crossroads starring young Ralph Macchio who plays a young Classical guitarist who meets an old Bluesman

Harmonica player in Chicago and helps him escape an Old Folks Retirement Home to head down south

to try to get out of a deal he made with the Devil at a Crossroads

Like Robert Johnson did…

And the Ralph Macchio character helps him get out of his deal with the Devil in a guitar battle contest in a hot night spot scene:

It was an 1980’s Hit movie and a classic film today in 2026!

And in Music there’s the Devil’s Tritone that’s been used in modern music a lot:

https://www.fender.com/articles/chords/the-devils-chord-the-eerie-history-of-diabolus-in-musica

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/77321/brief-history-devils-tritone

Quote:

“In the case of Giuseppe Tartini’s “The Devil’s Trill Sonata”—one of the absolutely toughest pieces a violin virtuoso can take on—the mark of the beast might be twofold.

According to Pryer, “He did this incredibly difficult [piece] and claimed in a dream he had heard the devil giving him instructions how to do it …

Two centuries later, he would probably have been in a heavy metal band.”

And in the late 1700’s an Italian virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, made a deal with the Devil to play and trigger the Romantic Era in Music!

Niccolò Paganini was called “The Devil’s Violinist” because his supernatural virtuosity, eerie appearance, and theatrical showmanship

That led 19th-century audiences to believe his skills were the result of a Faustian bargain with Satan. 

Why the rumors started: 

• Superhuman Technique: He could play up to 12 notes per second and possessed abnormally long, flexible fingers that could span three octaves across four strings.
  
• Creepy Appearance: He was tall, incredibly thin, and pale due to chronic illness. Treatments for syphilis (including mercury) caused him to lose his teeth, leaving him with a gaunt, skeletal face.
  
• Theatrical Showmanship: He performed entirely from memory, exaggerated his movements, and used “demonic” stage tricks—like snapping strings on purpose so he could finish the piece on a single string.
  
• Capitalizing on the Hype: Paganini leaned into the dark rumors. He constantly dressed in black and never publicly denied the stories, knowing the myth of a supernatural pact was excellent publicity.
  

Also Paganini was the World’s First Rock Star with groupies who were female Royals in Europe, who tossed priceless jewelry and clothes to him onstage

Competing with each other to have him in the boudoir for an affair and countless one-night stands.

And so it’s not a strange thing that to this day people still make deals with the Devil to be many things…

And on that note… sweet dreams my dear children…

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