'Crossroads' Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 8/22/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is NOT located at the published coordinates.

The North coordinate is: 27° 33.xxx'.
The West coordiante is: 80° 27.yyy'.

'xxx' and 'yyy' may be determined from the information below.

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During the spring of 1968, the British rock band Cream11 recorded a live version of 'Crossroads' during a concert in San Francisco's Winterland Auditorium. Arranged by guitarist Eric2 Clapton23, this reworking of the Robert31 Johnson1 song 'Cross Road Blues' has a faster tempo than the original, and includes two lines borrowed from another Robert Johnson song, 'Traveling Riverside Blues'.

The original song, 'Cross Road Blues', is one of Delta19 Blues26 singer Robert Johnson's most famous24 songs, and, in close association with the mythic28 legend21 of Johnson's short life and death, it has come to represent the tale4 of a blues man going to a metaphorical22crossroads in order to meet the devil20 and sell8 his soul15 in exchange6for becoming a famous blues player33.

While the idea of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil may be fascinating3 and evocative35, the song itself plainly describes the very real situation feared by Johnson and other African-Americans in the early 20th century's Deep South. In an era when lynchings were still common, Johnson was likely singing14 about the desperation7 of finding his way home from an unfamiliar place as quickly as possible. This interpretation17 also makes sense of the closing line 'You can run / Tell my friend, poor Willie32 Brown13 / that I'm standing at the crossroads' as Johnson's appeal30 for help from a real-life fellow musician25.

The legend of Johnson selling his soul to learn9 to play guitar5 is said to have taken place in Rosedale12, Mississippi, at the intersection34 of Highway18 8 and Highway 1. Another less common belief is that the crossroads are at the intersection of Highway 49 and Highway 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Because of its historical29 significance, Johnson's 'Cross Road Blues' was inducted27 into the Grammy16 Hall of Fame in 1998.

Rolling Stone Magazine has ranked Cream's 'Crossroads' as #3 on the '2008 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time' and as #409 in its 2004 List of '500 Greatest Songs Of All Time'. It has also been recognized10 as #10 on Guitar World's '100 Greatest Guitar Solos'.

(www.wikipedia.org)



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The original contents of this cache included:

A '(Good Morning,) Little Schoolgirl',
A 'Badge',
Two Swans (I told you about them. They live in the park),
A Sheriff and a Deputy (I shot one, but I didn't shoot the other),
A Mermaid (whose song tortured Brave Ulysses),
Two Dice (Anyone for tennis? Wouldn't it be nice?),
And a Yellow Tiger (crouched in silence, in her dark eyes).

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'Crossroads' is a box-set of recordings by Eric Clapton that chronicles his entire musical career, including works from the Yardbirds; John Mayall's Blues Breakers; Cream; Blind Faith; Delaney, Bonnie And Friends; and Derek And The Dominos, as well as his solo career. It manages to sum up his career succinctly and thoroughly, touching upon all of the hits and adding a bevy of first-rate unreleased material. No other Clapton album accurately explains why the guitarist was so influential, or demonstrates exactly what he accomplished.

(www.wikipedia.org; www.allmusic.com)

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Crossroads (1988) by Eric Clapton

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