The crossroads near Dockery's

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Just across the road from Dockery Farms, on Rt. 8 east of Cleveland, Mississippi, down a gravel road and past a graveyard, is a crossroads. Dockery's was the home of Charley Patton and other Delta bluesmen--the birthplace of the blues, some say. Some workers on Dockery's insist that Robert Johnson was so intimidated by Patton's playing that he sold his soul at this crossroads one midnight.

I don't believe that folktale. But this is a really cool crossroads.





Thanks to Preston Rumbaugh of Clarksdale for the map he drew that helped me find this spot!