Robert Johnson’s Grave & Self Guided Driving Tour

A creative genius who lived fast and died young, Robert Johnson has continued to influence generations of musicians across a wide spectrum of genres. Legends from Robert Plant to Bonnie Raitt have studied and imitated the guitar skills and vocal intonations of this mysterious man, rumored to have sold his soul to the devil at a Delta crossroads. This self-guided tour follows Johnson’s brief and turbulent life through Greenwood’s Baptist Town, his blues hangouts and the three possible burial sites around Leflore County.