Crossroads

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this short, we go looking for the devil, and find ourselves tangled in a web of details surrounding one of the most haunting figures in music--a legendary guitarist whose shadowy life spawned a legend so powerful, it's still being repeated...even by fans who don't believe a word of it.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts.
0:11.5	From W-N-Y-C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And NPR.
0:19.6	I gotta say I'm suddenly regretting this. I was looking forward to this all day, but now I didn't expect it to be so profoundly dark. You're scared? A little tiny bit, yeah. Oh, dude, you don't need to be doing that. Pat, like a moron, just turned his lights off just to freak me out. Did you ever do that when you're driving out and the wood? So that's producer Pat Walters and I. This is the one. Is this one right here? This is the road or crossroads. Where are you? So Pat and I... I know it's Pat. I know it's you and you're driving in the dark. Yes. This is going to take some set up. So a little while back, Pat and I went down to Clarksdale, Mississippi, which is a little tiny town out in the sticks, Mississippi Delta, drove down this dirt road, and this was dark. I mean, curtain of black, dark. Until we got to this place where our little road crossed another little road made kind of an X.
1:11.5	Should we get out of the car?
1:13.5	Yeah.
1:14.0	All right.
1:15.5	And we got out of the car and we stood there.
1:18.3	Okay, we have to be completely silent now.
1:21.8	And waited.
1:23.5	Five minutes to midnight.
1:25.2	Because we were told if we stood in that very spot till midnight,
1:28.7	the devil would come and talk to us.
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