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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."
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 devil imagery found in the blues is thoroughly familiar from western folklore, and nowhere do blues singers ever mention Legba or any other African deity in their songs or other lore. The actual African music connected with cults of Legba and similar trickster deities sounds nothing like the blues, but rather features polyrhythmic ...
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 ...
The album consists of songs composed by legendary blues artist Robert Johnson, and featured a guest appearance by Paul Rodgers, ex-lead vocalist of Free and Bad Company, who later worked with Queen. This was the first Splinter Group album to feature Roger Cotton and Larry Tolfree, after the departure of Cozy Powell and Spike Edney. The album ...
In 1959, "Preachin' Blues" (Johnson's last Vocalion single), was the first of his recordings to appear on an album. Folkways Records included it on a compilation of songs by early blues musicians, titled The Country Blues. [19] In 1961, Columbia released King of the Delta Blues Singers, the first album to feature Johnson exclusively. [32]
Pump Up the Volume (Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to Allan Moyle's 1990 drama film Pump Up the Volume. It was released on August 14, 1990 through MCA Records . The album peaked at number 50 on the US Billboard 200 chart.
1 Song notes. Toggle Song notes subsection. 1.1 "Remember Rockefeller at Attica" 1.2 "Devil Blues" ... "Devil Blues" (George Adams, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Mingus ...