Tunica Resorts

This man took his music to roadhouses and blues clubs all over the South.

[guitar playing] Johnson left behind just two photographs and 29 songs when he died at the young age of 27 And while his life is shrouded in mystery, we know he grew up partly in Robinsonville, Mississippi, where another blues legend, Son House, saw his talent and encouraged him to quit sharecropping and hit the road as a full-time musician.

His guitar technique was so out of this world that some say he got it by selling his soul to the devil.

A legend grew about how he met Lucifer himself at a crossroad outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi.