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The inside of one of the rooms at the Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale, Miss., although decades old, do contain the basic furnishings of a modern motel room, including oversized beds, indoor plumbing and comforters, as seen in this Jan. 28, 2002, photo. The row of six authentic sharecropper homes sits on the 4,000-acre Hopson Plantation, just four miles south of the crossroads of U.S. 49 and U.S. 61, where legend has it bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)