were traded promote chance of eternal salvation for terrestrial pleasures. from the blues rock n roll on this where heritage and dark legend spread by singer robert johnson. he was boasting that one night he had made a pact with the devil. of exchange for his soul he had supposedly received the power of putting audiences under the spell of his guitar. all that at that story of the crossroads in the devil that's when robert johnson turned from a lousy musician into a musical genius. the most famous pact with the devil is that of his father sed you sell your soul and your life in exchange for a talent for coffee. or robber johnson died from criminal poisoning in 1938 and his body was dumped in