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http://searchforschlock.com/media/podcasts/sfs-008-Crossroads.mp3 Download MP3 PLOT SYNPOSIS: Blues-loving Julliard guitar student Ralph Macchio, in search of a long-lost Robert Johnson track that was supposedly recorded but never released, tracks down presumed-dead bluesman Willie Brown (played by Joe Seneca). Brown, aka Blind Dog, agrees to teach the missing song to Macchio, suddenly aka Lightning Boy, in exchange for a trip to a certain Mississippi crossroads. FAMOUS FOR: Steve Vai's guitar badassery, whether he's providing the classically-trained sounds of Lightning Boy or shredding in his own role as a Satanically-empowered guitar deulist in the film's big final confrontation. Macchio, for his part, really does look like he could be playing guitar. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR: The long, fairly dull journey that preceeds said final confrontation. There's even a fairly pathetic romantic interlude with a young runaway who helps wealthy white boy Macchio learn the true meaning of the blues (because as we all know,