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"Me and the Devil Blues" is a blues song by Robert Johnson. It tells the story of the singer's waking up one morning to the devil knocking on the door, telling him that "it's time to go". [1] The lyrics concluded with the lines "You may bury my body down by the highway side" / "So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride."
Me and the Devil Blues, a Japanese manga series that takes its title from the song of the same name by Robert Johnson, chronicles a fictional version of Johnson's life, as a man called "RJ" who sells his soul to the devil for a talent for playing the blues. [186]
I'm New Here is a post-industrial blues album, [2] with spoken word folk songs and trip hop interludes. [3] I'm New Here received positive reviews from most critics and sold 3,700 copies in the US in its first week. It was promoted with the single "Me and the Devil", an adaptation of blues musician Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil Blues" (1937).
The Hartford Courant selected King of the Delta Blues Singers for its list of the 25 Pivotal Recordings That Defined Our Times (1999). [19] In 2003, the album was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , [ 20 ] with its ranking dropping to number 374 on the 2020 update of the list. [ 21 ] (
School Library Journal named Me and the Devil Blues as one of the best adult books for high school students in 2008. [16] The 2009 Glyph Comics Awards was awarded to Me and the Devil Blues for the Best Reprint Publication. [17] About.com's Deb Aoki lists Me and the Devil Blues as the best "underappreciated gem" of 2008 along with Shoulder-a ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Me and the Devil Blues; P. Phonograph Blues; Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) R. Ramblin ...
The Robert Johnson Songbook is an album by the British blues band the Peter Green Splinter Group, led by Peter Green.Released in 1998, this was their second album. Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member of that group from 1967–70, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Prior to Johnson's recording, the phrase "hellhound on my trail" had been used in various blues songs. [1] Sylvester Weaver's "Devil Blues", recorded in 1927 contains: "Hellhounds start to chase me man, I was a running fool, My ankles caught on fire, couldn't keep my puppies cool" [3] and "Funny Paper" Smith in his 1931 "Howling Wolf Blues No. 3" sang: "I take time when I'm prowlin', an' wipe ...