Summary
TUNICA, Miss. - Rau'shee Warren -the Cincinnati boxer who just turned 17 - isn't the first young guy to come to Tunica County and show he had more-than-anyone-imagined magic in his hands.
Legendary bluesman Robert Johnson - who came of age on the Abbey Leatherman Plantation just a few miles from the Tunica Arena where the Olympic Boxing Trials are being held - did it long before. His song Crossroads, arguably the ultimate of 1930s Delta blues, tells of the mythical, midnight deal he made here with the devil to be able to play his guitar like a tormented angel.See the full content of this document
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Cincinnati Teen has Foes Singin' the Blues
John Fewkes, director of the Tunica Museum, said the crossroads where the tale likely was conceived is just five miles or so from the Tunica Arena - at the intersection of Bonnie Blue Road and Crosstown Road. That's the location of Whit...
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