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"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
Single past Charlie Daniels Ring
from the album 1000000 Mile Reflections
B-side	"Rainbow Ride"
Released	May 21, 1979
Genre	Country[1] Southern rock[2]
Length	3:34
Label	Ballsy
Songwriter(southward)	Charlie Daniels Tom Crain "Taz" DiGregorio Fred Edwards Charles Hayward James W Marshall
Producer(south)	John Boylan
Charlie Daniels Ring singles chronology
"Trudy" (1978) "The Devil Went Downwardly to Georgia" (1979) "Mississippi" (1979)

"The Devil Went Downward to Georgia" is a vocal written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections.^[3]

The vocal is written in the key of D minor. Vassar Clements originally wrote the basic melody an octave lower, in a melody called "Lonesome Fiddle Dejection" released on Clements' self-titled 1975 album on which Charlie Daniels played guitar. The Charlie Daniels Band moved information technology upwards an octave and put words to it. The song's verses are closer to beingness spoken rather than sung (i.e., recitation), and tell the story of a beau named Johnny, in a variant on the archetype deal with the Devil. The performances of the Devil and Johnny are played as instrumental bridges. The song was the band's biggest striking, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100, prevented from further nautical chart movement by "Afterward The Dear Has Gone" by World, Wind and Fire and "My Sharona" past The Knack.^[4]

Content [edit]

The song is an uptempo bluegrass vocal most the Devil's failure to gain a young man'due south soul through a fiddle-playing competition. The song begins every bit a disappointed Devil arrives in Georgia, apparently "style behind" on stealing souls, when he comes upon a boyfriend named Johnny who is playing a fiddle, and quite well. Out of agony, the Devil, who claims to also be a dabble role player, wagers a fiddle of gold against Johnny'southward soul to run across who is the ameliorate fiddler. Although Johnny believes taking the Devil's bet might be a sin, he fearlessly accepts, confidently boasting that "I'm the best that'south e'er been."

The Devil plays beginning, backed by a band of demon musicians. When finished, Johnny compliments him and takes his own plow, in which he references, but does not perform, 4 old-time songs:

• "Burn down on the Mount", the name of an early 19th Century fiddle melody, and besides the name of Daniels' 1974 album,
• "The Business firm of the Ascension Sun", a traditional American southern folk song,

(the latter two were lyrical references):

• "Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough", which was famously used in Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys' vocal "Ida Carmine",^[five] and
• "Granny does/will your dog bite, no child no",^[5] merely the lyrics alone pre-date this song.

Realizing he has been defeated, the devil lays his golden fiddle at Johnny's feet. Johnny and then invites the devil to "c'mon back if y'ever wanna attempt again" before repeating his claim to exist "the best that's e'er been".

Reception [edit]

Cash Box praised the "engaging narrative story line" and said the song has "thundering pianoforte," "screaming fiddle work," "pounding drums and screeching guitar."^[6]

Censorship [edit]

Johnny'southward terminal boast, from the anthology version of the song, goes, "I done told you lot in one case, you son of a bitch, I'one thousand the all-time that's ever been". Simply to adjust radio airplay for Country and Top xl formats, Daniels inverse the lyric for the single release to, "'Crusade I told you once, you son of a gun", though AOR stations continued to utilize the unaltered version.

Musical references [edit]

The carol'due south story is a derivative of the traditional deal with the Devil motif. Charlie Daniels has stated in interviews, "I don't know where information technology came from, but it just did. Well, I call up I might know where it came from, it may accept come from an old verse form called 'The Mountain Whippoorwill' that Stephen Vincent Benét wrote many, many years ago (1925), that I had in high school."^{[7] [viii]}

Personnel [edit]

• Charlie Daniels - guitar, fiddle, vocals
• Tom Crain - guitar, vocals
• "Taz" DiGregorio - keyboards, vocals
• Fred Edwards - drums, percussion
• James W. Marshall - drums, percussion
• Charles Hayward - bass^[9]

Parodies and covers [edit]

"The Devil Went Downwards to Georgia"
Unmarried by Nickelback feat. Dave Martone
Released	August 14, 2020 (2020-08-14)
Recorded	2005
Length	3:58
Label	Self-released
Songwriter(s)	Charlie Daniels Tom Crain "Taz" DiGregorio Fred Edwards Charles Hayward James W Marshall
Producer(s)	Nickelback
Nickelback feat. Dave Martone singles chronology
"Song on Fire" (2018) "The Devil Went Downwardly to Georgia" (2020)

• The Levellers released a version of the song in 1991.^[10]
• Although information technology is often misattributed to David Allan Coe or "Weird Al" Yankovic, musician Travis Meyer performed a parody entitled "The Devil Went to Jamaica" circa 1998, in which Johnny is recast as a Jamaican drug dealer who is challenged by the devil to a pot-smoking competition to see whose marijuana is best: his, or Johnny'southward.^[11]
• On a 1980 The Muppet Prove episode (Episode 420), the Muppet versions of the Devil and Johnny are portrayed in an opening number embrace of the song.^[12]
• The rap group K.K.C. Kru released a hip hop re-imagining of the song entitled "The Devil Came Up to Michigan" in 1991, featuring the devil and a deejay competing for a turntable of aureate.^[13]
• Steve Ouimette (with Ed DeGenaro and Geoff Tyson^[14]) performed a cover of the song for the 2007 video game Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Stone and, eventually, his 2010 album Epic. This version uses electric guitars instead of fiddles, though the original lyrics are still performed. Information technology is played every bit the decision of the game in a fake guitar battle with the devil. Daniels objected to this version on the grounds that the devil may win the contest, which he referred to equally "violating the very essence of the song".^[15]
• In 2013, the Boston-based roots rockers Adam Ezra Group recorded a parody version, "The Devil Came upward to Boston", with Boston-focused lyrics. In this version's official music video, grouping leader Adam Ezra, who wrote the lyrics to the parody, narrates it with an exaggerated version of his real-life Boston accent, and the Devil is depicted as a New York Yankees fan, playing off the celebrated rivalry between the Yankees and Boston Cherry Sox.^[16]
• Pop vocalizer and electric violinist Michelle Lambert recorded a version of the song in 2015, and released a music video. In her rendition "Johnny" is replaced by "Michelle".^[17]
• A cappella group Dwelling Free recorded a version of the song in collaboration with Taylor Davis and Charlie Daniels playing dabble, released in September 2015. The narration is performed by Home Free bass singer Tim Foust.^[18]
• The rock band Blues Traveler often performs this song in concert, with John Popper playing the fiddle parts on harmonica.^[19]
• Robot Chicken featured a blended parody of the song along with the animated serial Spawn in episode 49 of flavour iii, where Malebolgia, an infernal lord, is challenged past Spawn to a fiddle duel prepare to a similar tune.^[twenty]
• In the Futurama episode "Hell is Other Robots", Leela must challenge the robot devil in a fiddle-playing contest to win back Bender's soul. Also included as a prize for the winner of the contest is a solid gold fiddle.
• Funk metal band Primus covered the song and featured it, in the form of a claymation music video, on a CD-ROM that was included with the 1998 release of their EP Rhinoplasty.^[21]
• British Punk band The Toy Dolls recorded a version chosen 'The Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe', which used a guitar duel instead of a dabble duel betwixt Johnny and the Devil.
• Christian parody band ApologetiX recorded a parody called "The Devil Went Down to Jordan" which records the Devil's attempt to tempt Jesus in the wilderness.
• British comedy folk ring The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican recorded a version called 'The Devil Went Down To Barnsley', in which the devil has a fiddle duel with Bjorn Doonicansson.
• American Metallic Band Nature of Rebel Minds ^[22] released a cover of the song in 2019 and released an official music video to youtube also. ^[23]
• American nu metallic ring Korn recorded a encompass of the song in 2020 which featured the band playing the devil and rapper Yelawolf equally Johnny.^[24]
• Canadian hard rock band Nickelback recorded a cover in 2020 with Dave Martone. This version uses electric guitars instead of fiddles, tuned down a whole step, and contains the original lyrics with slight changes.
• A metallic version of the song was recorded by Leo Moracchioli for his YouTube channel, Frog Leap Studios. The video was publicly released^[25] on July 17, 2020.
• A cover of the song titled "Devil Comes Dorsum to Georgia" was done past Johnny Cash singing updated lyrics with violin performed by Marking O'Connor in 2010.^[26]

Nautical chart performance [edit]

The original version of the song spent 14 weeks on the Hot Country Singles charts in 1979, peaking at number 1 and holding the position for one calendar week. Information technology spent two weeks at a superlative of number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[27] The single was certified Platinum past the RIAA on December 20, 1989, for sales of over two million copies in the United States.^[28] In 2003, the song was ranked at #69 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Land Music, and #5 on CMT'due south xx Greatest Southern Rock Songs in 2006. Since it became available equally a download in the digital era, it has also sold 2.49 million digital copies in the U.s.a. as of November 2019.^[29] In June 1998, Epic Records re-released the song to country radio, but accidentally sent out the version in which the line "son of a bitch" was uncensored. This mistake was quickly corrected, and the vocal re-entered the country charts at number 62 for the chart dated June 20, 1998.^[thirty] Information technology spent seven weeks on the chart and peaked at number lx.^[27]

Certifications [edit]

Sequel [edit]

"The Devil Comes Dorsum to Georgia"
Single past Marking O'Connor featuring Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt
from the album Heroes
B-side	"This Can't Exist Love"
Released	September 14, 1993
Genre	Bluegrass, state, country rock
Length	4:13
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Charlie Daniels Tom Crain "Taz" DiGregorio Fred Edwards Charles Hayward James W Marshall
Producer(s)	Marker O'Connor and Jim Ed Norman

In 1993, a sequel to the vocal, "The Devil Comes Dorsum to Georgia", was released by master violinist Mark O'Connor on his anthology Heroes. The song featured Daniels on dabble, with Johnny Cash every bit the narrator, Marty Stuart as Johnny, and Travis Tritt as the devil. The vocal peaked at #54 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs nautical chart in 1994.

In the sequel, the devil, still furious ten years afterward being beaten, decides to accept up Johnny's challenge to "c'monday back if y'ever wanna try again". Johnny is now grown with a wife and baby son, and the devil believes that Johnny's sinful pride volition be his undoing, and then he takes dorsum the golden fiddle, forcing Johnny to practice with his former fiddle before their rematch- the same ane he played when he defeated the devil.

Though the song reiterates Johnny'south bold claim that he is "the best that's ever been", the lyrics do non reveal who won the rematch. But in the video, the devil is shown defeated past Johnny again.

Encounter also [edit]

• "Cross Road Dejection"
• Faust
• "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
• "The Devil and Tom Walker"

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External links [edit]

• Listen to "The Devil Went Downward to Georgia" on YouTube

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