# Cross Road Blues guitar solo > The guitar solo on Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson (1937) starts at about 0:09. From the album Non-album single. A blues classic from the 1930s. Canonical URL: Robert Johnson, 1937, from *Non-album single*. Solo by *Robert Johnson*. Johnson's urgent slide phrases and percussive attack became the foundation of the crossroads myth and of countless rock reinterpretations. Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson is #1 in our ranking of the best Robert Johnson guitar solos. The solo is played by Robert Johnson and the song was released in 1937. ## In our lists - [The Best Robert Johnson Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/robert-johnson-guitar-solos/) — #1 - [The Best Guitar Solos of 1937](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1937/) — #3 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Cross Road Blues? Robert Johnson played the solo on Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues (1937). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)