Robert Johnson, the musician that sold his soul to the
devil
Robert Johnson is one of the best musicians in
the genre of blues and he was called the grandfather of Rock´n Roll. He was
born 8th May 1911. When he was a child, he started to play the harp and the
harmonica. Then he started to play the guitar but he was not so good at playing it.
In 1929 he got married to Virginia Travis but she died when she was having their first child and the child died too. Later he got married to Esther
Lookwood. He started to play skilfully the guitar. Rumors began to
surface about he had sold his soul to the devil because it was a radical change
in his form of playing the guitar. People said that he made the deal in the cross of the highway 61 with the 49.
and this crossing they made a statue
His fans started saying that he played his guitar as if
they were two and that he couldn't stay for much time in the same place
because the devil was following him. In total he recorded 29 albums between 1936 and
1937.
He died in 1938 the legend tells that he was trying to
seduce to a woman from a local business, when the local business offered, he a opened
bottle of whiskey (they think the whiskey was poisoned ) and he accepted. In
the middle of the concert he stopped singing and started to hallucinate two
days later he died.
These are the two songs that talk about the devil and
his meeting with him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmunXcHMto#t=45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MCHI23FTP8
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