By Pastor Don Elmore
Back in the 1930’s, a lot of highways were still made of dry, dirty mud roads. This was especially true in the state of Mississippi. At the intersection of US Route 49 and US Route 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson made his pact with the devil. It happened shortly after midnight.
Robert Johnson, who was born to an father that he barely knew, was a lazy black boy. Hedidn’t want to do much work—he just wanted to make a living playing and singing the music of his race.It is kind of difficult to...