Blues legend Robert Johnson has a special connection to San Antonio: some of his only recordings were made in the historic, and supposedly haunted, Gunter Hotel.
A ghostly, supernatural aura seems to radiate from Johnson’s life and music. As the story goes, he met the devil at the proverbial crossroads and sold his soul for the ability to master the blues.
Originally performed at Jumpstart in December of last year, San Antonio artist and musician Fred Himes’ stage show Devil at the Crossroads — Storytelling in Blues has a unique take on this mythic history and combines original music, animation and the ramblings of a fictional “rival” of Johnson, one Virgil T. Honeybone.
Honeybone serves as an unreliable yet compelling narrator for this flight of fancy that will take unfold on Sunday, Oct. 13, at La Zona Cultural. Better have your mojo working.
$10, 7-9 p.m., La Zona Cultural, 337 W. Commerce St., (210) 212-9373, centrosanantonio.org/zona-cultural.
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This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2024.