#DEAL AT THE CROSSROADS SONG SERIES#
Tamora Pierce's series of books set in the Tortall universe has the big gods, like Mithros (war and justice), and the Goddess (fertility, women, agriculture), but it also has minor gods like Weiryn (god of the hunt for a small mountainous area), and rather hilariously a god of crossroads, NOT a god of travelers, just a god of ACTUAL crossroads.
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Bess remembers the trope but not in time to get away. Also, in Seven Wild Sisters, Bess and Laurel meet one of The Fair Folk at a crossroads made by deer paths.Charles de Lint has a character based on the legend of the guitarist at the crossroads.Martha doesn't actually take a turn instead she collapses at the foot of the cross and the blood of Christ redeems her. The left side of the cross is labeled "to Hell", and there's a jazz band performing there. Sure enough, there's an actual crossroads, with a cross in the middle. The Blood of Jesus: When Martha starts her Adventures in Comaland, the angel tells Martha to bear right at the crossroads if she wants to go to Heaven.(As noted below in the Mythology section traditional European folklore holds that evil spirits or Satan must be summoned at a crossroads.) Appropriately enough, in Faust, the rather serious choice to summon the Devil must take place at a crossroads.Given the theme of the movie, there's great emphasis upon the term "cross". In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy and his father arrive at a crossroads, debating whether they should head to Berlin to get his father's grail diary back, or to Venice, to go to Alexandretta to save Marcus from the Nazis.In Soviet propaganda film Earth (1930), Khoma Bilokin kills Vasyl at the crossroads, symbolizing the choice that Ukranian peasantry has to make, between collectivization and sharing the land between everyone (what Vasyl wants), and to resist change and selfishly hold on to private land (the Bilokin family won't give up their land to the collective).It is in a crossroad that not only Buster and Fred meet in The Fearless Four, but also where the arrows indicating the direction to Paris and Bremen are switched, driving thus the plot of the story.
#DEAL AT THE CROSSROADS SONG MOVIE#
The 1986 Ralph Macchio movie Crossroads mirrors the Robert Johnson legend, and hinges on this trope.Near the end of Cast Away, the intersection is symbolic.This is where the brothers meet Big Dan Teague in O Brother, Where Art Thou? as well as Tommy Johnson after he made a Deal with the Devil.He seems to really enjoy just being able to solo without restriction which is usually not the case with Rush music because of its complexity. What we love most about this great performance is watching Alex Lifeson really let loose. Yet, brilliant musicianship always shines. This one one will also come as a surprise as Rush has never been known or even thought of as blues band. We open up our 10 best versions of Crossroads with one of our favorite bands of all time.
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When researching the story of rock and roll, the release of Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues,” stands as one of its most pivotal moments. It was released in 1937 on a vinyl 78 record by the Vocalion label which was owned by Brunswick Records. The song “Cross Road Blues,” was first recorded in 1936. Robert Johnson was one of the first blues artist to have been recorded.