🔰 CROSSROADS "Crossroads" is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He performed it solo with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The guitarist Eric Clapton and the British rock group Cream popularized the song as "Crossroads" on their 1968 "Wheels of Fire" album, and their fiery blues rock interpretation became one of their best-known songs and inspired many cover versions. Both Johnson's and Cream's recordings of the song have received accolades