Name: Where to Sell Your Soul for the Delta Blues
Uploaded: 2019-03-28
Duration: 149490
Description: Where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil and where the first juke joints started playing a new kind of American music, Clarksdale is the birthplace of Delta Blues.

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Where to Sell Your Soul for the Delta Blues

Where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil and where the first juke joints started playing a new kind of American music, Clarksdale is the birthplace of Delta Blues. (02:29)

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