ed morales and crossroads i've removed the following in addition author ed morales has claimed that yoruba religious beliefs and traditions played a part in early american blues music citing blues guitarist robert johnson's cross road blues as a thinly veiled reference to eleggua the orisha in charge of the crossroads it doesn't tell us why we should care about mr morales opinion and is a rather dubious claim at best legends of the devil and the crossroads occur in european folklore as well and probably occur in folklore of all cultures