Artist	Song
Big Joe Williams	Highway 49
Robert Johnson	Cross Road Blues
Memphis Jug Band	On the Road Again
Bad Livers	Shufflin' to Memphis
W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys	Lonesome Road Blues
Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer	Lonesome Road Blues
Stanley Brothers	The Rambler's Blues
Lucinda Williams	Ramblin' On My Mind
Jim White	If Jesus Drove a Motor Home
Southern Culture on the Skids	My Home Has Wheels
Steve Earle	Guitar Town
Gene O'Quinn	Texas Boogie
Jimmy Liggins	Cadillac Boogie
Johnny Shines	Dynaflow Blues
Randall Bramlett	Get In Get Out
Blue Mountain	Bloody 98
Little Walter	Key to the Highway
Ronnie Self	Rocky Road Blues
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Rocky Road Blues
Del McCoury Band	1952 Vincent Black Lightening
Billy Joe Shaver	Georgia on a Fast Train
Doc & Merle Watson	Train that Carried My Girl from Town
Gene Autry	Dixie Cannonball
Uncle Dave Macon	Railroadin' & Gamblin'
Pink Anderson & Semmie Dooley	C.C. & O. Blues
Old Crow Medicine Show	Down South Blues
Ray Charles	I'm Movin' On

Comment:

Volume 8 in the continuing series. Highways 49 and 61 intersect in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the crossroads where, legend has it, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his transcendent guitar-playing ability. (Though some say it was at a crossroads just south of Rosedale where Highway 1 intersects Highway 8.)
From Lonely Planet's Louisiana and the Deep South:
"Tales of striking a bargain with the devil are recorded in many legends, including the following excerpt from Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro, by Newbell Miles Puckett (Patterson Smith, 1968):
"If you want to make a contract with the devil...Take a black cat bone and a guitar and go to a lonely fork in the roads at midnight. Sit down there and play your best piece, thinking of and wishing for the devil all the while. By and by you will hear music, dim at first but growing louder and louder as the music approaches nearer. After a time you feel something tugging at your instrument...Let the devil take it and keep thumping along with your fingers as if you still had a guitar in your hands. Then the devil will hand you his instrument to play and will accompany you on yours. After doing this for a time he will seize your fingers and trim the nails until they bleed, finally taking his guitar back and returning your own. Keep on playing; do not look around. His music will become fainter and fainter as he moves away...You will be able to play any piece you desire on the guitar and you can do anything you want to in the world, but you have sold your eternal soul to the devil and are his in the world to come."
"I went down to the crossroad/fell down on my knees /Asked the lord above, 'Have mercy now/save poor Bob if you please'" -- Robert Johnson

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