Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)

Track listing

Film's music chronology

Miscellaneous information

• The "Eugene's Trick Bag" is based on the Caprice No. 5 by Niccolò Paganini.
• The movie was filmed in some of the same Mississippi Delta locations where screenwriter Fusco once hitchhiked and hopped trains, searching for lost blues legends much like his characters.
• Macchio's fingering on the guitar was a studied acting job in itself because he didn't know how to play guitar prior to taking on the part of a guitarist. He received intensive training from classical guitarist William Kanengiser of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Blues and slide guitar Master Arlen Roth to approximate playing realistically enough to hide his inexperience.
• The "train" riff that Jack Butler plays to intimidate Eugene at the beginning of their duel was later used in "Bad Horsie", the opening track on Steve Vai's Alien Love Secrets.

  Gear

• The guitar used by Jack Butler is a Charvel San Dimas.
• The guitar amplifier used by Jack Butler is a Carvin X100B.
• The battery-powered guitar amplifier used by Macchio is Pignose Legendary 7-100.
• The Fender Telecaster Ralph Macchio carries along his hobo trek in the second half of the film is a 1970s CBS Fender with block lettering on the headstock. Very realistic for the film because not only were they affordable and easy to acquire, their heavy polyurethane finish made them near impervious to the tests of the road, as seen when Macchio and Seneca are walking through the rain, sleeping in barns, abandoned shacks and the outdoors.