"Cross Road Blues" is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He sang it as a solo piece with acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The lyrics describe Johnson's grief at being unable to catch a ride at an intersection before the sun sets. Some have attached a supernatural significance to the song. One of Johnson's two recorded performances was released in 1937 as a single, heard mainly in the Mississippi Delta area. The second, which reached a wider audience, was included on King of the Delta Blues Singers, a compilation album of some of Johnson's songs released in 1961 during the American folk music revival. Elmore James recorded a version of the song in 1954, and another in either 1960 or 1961. In the late 1960s, guitarist Eric Clapton and his bandmates in the British rock group Cream (pictured) popularized it as "Crossroads". Their blues rock interpretation became one of their best-known songs, inspiring many cover versions.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in the South Pacific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty
1923:
The FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of the Empire Stadium in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_FA_Cup_final
1945:
World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini
1983:
The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
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minimum wage: (economics) The lowest rate at which an employer must legally pay an employee, usually expressed as pay per hour. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minimum_wage
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All fungi are edible … Some fungi are not edible more than once. --The Discworld Almanak https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld