#and his fiddling is meh at best. his demons are carrying

[bisamwilson]

anyways johnny’s part of the devil went down to georgia is one of the best fiddling portions of recorded songs of all time and the devil’s bit is just a glorified scale exercise

#johnny’s part is not only musically more interesting and engaging but it’s also steeped in a very rich folk song and fiddle tradition #whereas the devil has the accompaniment flare but very little musically interesting happening #and his fiddling is meh at best. his demons are carrying #hes lost bc he’s not actually fiddling!!! #and discounting johnny’s bit is not only just generally wrong in terms of what’s written and performed and the difficulty/complexity/origin #originality levels #but it’s also discounting a very rich tradition of folk music made by a generally underserved poor and undereducated population that carries #a lot of significant cultural weight #sorry people were saying dumb shit on the devil went down to georgia post #and i am gonna vague about it #bc that’s just fucking disrespectful #to both charlie daniels and the folk music culture in general #mak rants #charlie daniels #the charlie daniels band #the devil went down to georgia