"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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Road_Blues>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All fungi are edible … Some fungi are not edible more than
once.
--The Discworld Almanak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld>
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