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Amazingly, fresnelly didn't mention Robert Johnson, on which Crossroads is based. Robert Johnson is one of the early blues musicians and is often called the inventor of the blues (like other similar statements about people inventing musics, it is not really true and never as simple, but that it is said tells you something about his significance).
Johnson's recordings, made in the 1930s, are all available on one set, The Complete Recordings, which is readily available. I'm speaking from my bank of musical trivia here and have never really listened to them, but if I wanted to check out the blues, I'd check out Johnson to get a sense of the history.
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