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‘Cross Road Blues’ was recorded in the last of these sessions, on November 27 1936. We know he was at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, TX at the end of November 1936, recording music for producer (and future Columbia Records country music luminary) Don Law The year after Johnson’s last sessions, Law would produce Bob Wills’ signature song, ‘San Antonio Rose’, and later in his career would produce Johnny Horton’s … Continue reading in a trio of sessions. Johnson spent nearly all of his adulthood as an itinerant musician, traveling from place to place. He was married twice, once in 1929 to a girl named Virginia Travis who died in childbirth, and once in 1931 to a woman named Callie Craft, who died in 1933. He lived and attended school in Memphis for a time. He was born May 8 1911, in Hazelhurst, MS. Here’s what we have in the way of (mostly) established fact: Naturally, as befits a figure as shrouded in myth and urban legend as Robert Johnson, much of the record is buried in contradiction and the treacherous muck of suspect memory. What we know or can speculate about him is based on a few fragments of fossilized information unearthed long after his death, and the eyewitness accounts of those who claim to have known him. It’s a little like paleontology, this business of piecing together the probable shape of Robert Johnson’s life.