Crossroads (1986 film)

Crossroads is a 1986 musical dramatic feature film inspired by the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson. Starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca and Jami Gertz, the film was written by John Fusco and directed by Walter Hill and features an original score featuring Ry Cooder and Steve Vai on the soundtracks guitar, and harmonica by Sonny Terry. Vai also appears in the film as the devils guitar player in the climactic guitar duel.

Eugene Martone Ralph Macchio is a classical guitar student at the Juilliard School for Performing Arts in New York City who has an obsession for the blues, especially the famed Robert Johnson. Most intriguing are the legends surrounding exactly how Johnson became so talented most notably the one claiming he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads along with a supposed lost song that Johnson never recorded. Eugene meets blues musician Willie Brown in an old folks prison and plays him some blues on his guitar. Willie finally admits that he actually is Blind Dog Fulton, bandmate of Robert Johnson. Willie then says he knows the missing Robert Johnson tune in question but refuses to give it to Eugene unless the boy breaks him out of the facility and gets him to Mississippi, where he has unfinished business to settle. Eugene refuses, and Willie says he thought Eugene might be a Lightnin Boy but hes just a chicken ass. Eugene reluctantly agrees to help, and they head to Memphis, Tennessee.Willie tells Eugene how he came to be in prison which ultimately led to his being in the hospital. Upon reaching Memphis, Eugene realizes that Willie has misled him, saying he had more money than he actually has. With onlyto their name they end up hoboing from Memphis to rural Mississippi. Lightnin Boy becomes Eugenes blues name. ........

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