Robert Johnson [Original] | Thoughtful Piano Music 2023 | Upcoming EP Pre-Release

This song, like 2 of the other songs on my upcoming EP "Second Chances I", was written at a time in my life when I felt I didn't fit neatly into any place, and I was ambivalent about the many roads laid before me.

I used the man Robert Johnson as the song's figurehead for many reasons. He's widely regarded as the inventor of the Blues, a style of music without which we wouldn't have jazz, rock, pop, or pretty much any of the music we listen to today. He also is enshrouded in a spooky legend where he meets the Devil at a crossroads and sells his soul so he can be the best guitarist who ever lived.

The crossroads is also a symbol of the apex at which we make a pivotal choice (which direction will I go?) and linked to this can be the experience of indecision, a theme in this song.

The legend is so profound in its many angles and its depth, that it's stuck with me ever since I first heard of it. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you've been at a point in your life when you've been faced with many choices, none of them particularly ideal... or maybe you felt that you were selling out, and even wondered if the selling out wasn't worth it to achieve a greater goal.

If you've faced any of these things, this song is for you, too.

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