Robert Johnson at the Crossroads

In colorful costume,storytellers Rebecca Jernigan and Wendy Garrison retell the tale of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. With music, drama and sign language, they recount his fateful encounter with the Prince of Darkness at the crossroads in the Delta. In educational venues they stress that the audience is integral to any live performance. They discuss the historical person Robert Johnson, and they share the role of the blues as an indigenous musical genre that grew out of the challenges of life in the Mississippi delta.

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Wendy Garrison is a songwriter and slide guitar player based in Oxford, Mississippi. Wendy has been playing gigs since 1988 and continues to play around the state both solo as well as with an all women group called Maybelle’s Lovers. She is listed as a performer with the Mississippi Folk Life and Folk Artist Directory.