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Goin' Down this Road Feelin' Bad - Ramblin' 'Round the Mysterious South

Artist Song
Big Joe Williams  Highway 49 
Robert Johnson  Cross Road Blues 
Memphis Jug Band  On the Road Again 
Bad Livers  Shufflin' to Memphis 
W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys  Lonesome Road Blues 
Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer  Lonesome Road Blues 
Stanley Brothers  The Rambler's Blues 
Lucinda Williams  Ramblin' On My Mind 
Jim White  If Jesus Drove a Motor Home 
Southern Culture on the Skids  My Home Has Wheels 
Steve Earle  Guitar Town 
Gene O'Quinn  Texas Boogie 
Jimmy Liggins  Cadillac Boogie 
Johnny Shines  Dynaflow Blues 
Randall Bramlett  Get In Get Out 
Blue Mountain  Bloody 98 
Little Walter  Key to the Highway 
Ronnie Self  Rocky Road Blues 
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys  Rocky Road Blues 
Del McCoury Band  1952 Vincent Black Lightening 
Billy Joe Shaver  Georgia on a Fast Train 
Doc & Merle Watson  Train that Carried My Girl from Town 
Gene Autry  Dixie Cannonball 
Uncle Dave Macon  Railroadin' & Gamblin' 
Pink Anderson & Semmie Dooley  C.C. & O. Blues 
Old Crow Medicine Show  Down South Blues 
Ray Charles  I'm Movin' On 

Comment:

Volume 8 in the continuing series. Highways 49 and 61 intersect in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the crossroads where, legend has it, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his transcendent guitar-playing ability. (Though some say it was at a crossroads just south of Rosedale where Highway 1 intersects Highway 8.)
From Lonely Planet's Louisiana and the Deep South:
"Tales of striking a bargain with the devil are recorded in many legends, including the following excerpt from Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro, by Newbell Miles Puckett (Patterson Smith, 1968):
"If you want to make a contract with the devil...Take a black cat bone and a guitar and go to a lonely fork in the roads at midnight. Sit down there and play your best piece, thinking of and wishing for the devil all the while. By and by you will hear music, dim at first but growing louder and louder as the music approaches nearer. After a time you feel something tugging at your instrument...Let the devil take it and keep thumping along with your fingers as if you still had a guitar in your hands. Then the devil will hand you his instrument to play and will accompany you on yours. After doing this for a time he will seize your fingers and trim the nails until they bleed, finally taking his guitar back and returning your own. Keep on playing; do not look around. His music will become fainter and fainter as he moves away...You will be able to play any piece you desire on the guitar and you can do anything you want to in the world, but you have sold your eternal soul to the devil and are his in the world to come."
"I went down to the crossroad/fell down on my knees /Asked the lord above, 'Have mercy now/save poor Bob if you please'" -- Robert Johnson

Feedback:

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James Jackson
Date: 8/1/2004
This is so incredibly good that I am floored! Wow!
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Slack-a-gogo
Date: 8/1/2004
Fantastic stuff all around. Great Old Crow and Shaver picks. As much as I love the original, I think Del McCourney does "1952 Black Vincnet" the way Richard thompson heard in his head.
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Slack-a-gogo
Date: 8/1/2004
Fantastic stuff all around. Great Old Crow and Shaver picks. As much as I love the original, I think Del McCourney does "1952 Black Vincnet" the way Richard thompson heard in his head.
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Mo Twang!
Date: 8/1/2004
Simply wonderful. That Shaver song is one of my all time favorites.
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/1/2004
Great stuff. I'm with Dale on that Dale McCoury track.
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The Misfit
Date: 8/1/2004
Fantastic. I want this.
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Nick Falivena
Date: 8/1/2004
Top notch Johnny Shines, Little Walter. Can we trade?
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Laura_K
Date: 8/1/2004
This is great! I love the Stanley Brothers to that great one from Lucinda.
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hemizen
Date: 8/2/2004
Terrific!
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Bear
Date: 8/2/2004
Looks proper dark and dirty. Coool.
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McDonald12
Date: 8/2/2004
wonderful addition to a truly great series
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p the swede
Date: 8/2/2004
tasty
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RMLondon
Date: 8/2/2004
Very nice!
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 8/2/2004
Great as usual! I've been toying with this idea meself ... but you beat me to it!
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valis
Date: 8/2/2004
Can't top bear's comment, so make mine a double..."proper dark and dirty", damn, that's IT!
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mckbrd
Date: 8/2/2004
great mix, to be sure!
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G-Sphere
Date: 8/2/2004
very very nice... classic stuff.
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Siobhan
Date: 8/2/2004
This is very, VERY nice indeed - enjoyed the liner notes as well. Amen to "proper dark and dirty"!
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French Connection
Date: 8/3/2004
TrTs TrTs Bien Indeed.
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Muzag
Date: 8/3/2004
Looks excellent, great work.
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12vman
Date: 8/3/2004
Feels like I'm walkin' on an old dirt road, on a sunny, dusty afternoon, heading south...