Papa Legba, Come On And Open The Gate…

Even today, while traveling in and around the Mississippi Delta, you'll still hear fabled tales of the old bluesmen selling their souls at the crossroads in exchange for supernatural musical gifts. Whereas the Robert Johnson tale has become the most widely known, it is in fact more of a composite story derived from old African American folk traditions that found their way to the Americas centuries ago embedding itself into . . .

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