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I'll Take You There: The Everlasting Legacy of the Staple Singers

Andria Lisle, MOJO, April 2001

The drive from Memphis to Drew, Mississippi, is a treacherous one even today. Highway 61 will take you as far south as Clarksdale, before you turn east on 49 at the intersection where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil.

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