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Banea-Vaedr t1_itld74f wrote

Devil went down to Georgia he was lookin for a song to steal...

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Barley12 t1_itljhnc wrote

He was doing fine they were standing in line it was excellent weed indeed.

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747ER t1_itpjs6q wrote

He was in a bind, cause he was way behind, he was willing to make a deal…

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HarryHacker42 t1_itlzkxa wrote

AI is stealing the songs! How we will make it? Oh.. people do it too? Well, lets stop the computers from doing it because... RIAA is full of idiots who hate technology.

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CrazyPlato t1_itltaeu wrote

You're gonna have to be more specific. That song is fiddle all the way down.

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AudibleNod t1_itlc0vl wrote

I always like how the Devil basically played Rock n Roll with his band of demons.

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bolanrox t1_itlca5i wrote

The devil played better imo

Also he won in the end. Johnny is so guilty of pride

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Dylhole09 t1_itm0ckw wrote

I personally like the devil’s part better, it has that more rock and roll feel like u/AudibleNod mentioned, but if you really focus on the fiddle part of it, it’s not good. Especially as it goes on, you can hear how it degrades, even my untrained ear

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Solidsnakeerection t1_itmdyfq wrote

The devil fools you into thinking he is better by distracting you with flash

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wangyuanji58 t1_itmllro wrote

Actually the devil was better until Johnny hit him with the drum solo. Smashed his head in with the gold fiddle and ran off.

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Kosherporkchops t1_itmzu43 wrote

“Well, it looked like I was gonna be stuck here as far as I could tell I thought I might as well suck up, you know what the hell I said, "You know that song that Charlie Daniels did About how you went down to Georgia and played fiddle against that kid" He said, "Yeah it broke my heart but you know what are you gonna do I said, "To tell you the truth I thought your solo was the better of the two"

Ray Wylie Hubbard

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ModernKnight1453 t1_itlsowa wrote

Johnny just needs to go to church some more, have a chat with his pastor, and feel bad about the whole ordeal and he'll be fine. Devil got nothing against all of that

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leonden t1_itmhvgn wrote

Isn’t that how the devil is supposed to work?

You lose and you give your soul or you win and condemn yourself by being prideful.

In the end the devil always wins if you agree to his deals.

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bolanrox t1_itmktj2 wrote

if you believe in that version of Devil i guess.

Like Pacino said in The Devils Advocate. Pride, his favorite sin

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loosehead1 t1_itmu6zx wrote

You don't hear what Johnny plays on his fiddle. The lyrics are describing the songs that he plays. Fire on the mountain, house of the rising sun, chicken in a bread pan and granny does your dog bite are all songs and the lines that mention them mostly include lyrics to the song too.

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HereTakeThisBooger t1_itmg39n wrote

Plus, wouldn't a solid gold fiddle weigh hundreds of pounds and sound crummy?

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bolanrox t1_itmgi3a wrote

that too.

and you would look like a douche nozzle. like the guitarist from Imagine Dragons

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ARock_Urock t1_itmc4su wrote

That's what I always like about his part.

I think he Johnny wins because he did it solo. The devil needed a whole band to sound bad ass, but it was pure Rock and/or Roll!!

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Ya_Got_GOT t1_itmqy7m wrote

Haven't listened in a while but I think it had some disco vibes IIRC

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wsf t1_itm66sm wrote

I done told you once, you son of a bitch: I'm the best that's ever been.

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Apprehensive_Pause12 t1_itnrzlz wrote

An 8 year old me couldn’t wait to hear “son of a bitch” on the radio. They usually played the “son of a gun” version though.

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RelationshipFit3008 t1_itlkbd5 wrote

Fire on the mountain....run boys run!!!

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ten-year-reset t1_itmf1r5 wrote

TIL for me, as well. After listening to Lonesome Fiddle Blues on YouTube, I realized I'd heard it before. It's in David Hoffman's 1965 documentary about Appalachian mountain music and step dancing, a band of old-timers is playing it while a couple teens from a traveling dance troupe are warming up: https://youtu.be/kgHgLgR9WNc?t=1613

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Pickin_n_Grinnin t1_ito7e34 wrote

I don't know if you linked the wrong time stamp, but that's not lonesome fiddle blues. That sounds more like paddy on the turnpike or something similar.

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mnfimo t1_itlhcr0 wrote

String Cheese incident covers lonesome fiddle blues a lot, well they used to.

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HabeQuiddam t1_itm48g0 wrote

And I always thought they were playing some odd version of Devil Went Down To Georgia the first few times I heard them play Lonesome! Now I know why!

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jimipanic t1_itmnu8n wrote

I remember the bluegrass days.

Electric bluegrass up be precise

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Shoppershops t1_itmmio1 wrote

Johnny’s part, or the devils?

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_itn39ub wrote

I always thought the Devil’s piece was better, despite not really having any fiddle….

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ExpoLima t1_itp5hsx wrote

IMHO The Devil won that duel.

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EggsMarshall t1_itmj9sy wrote

You sure you just learned that today, China Cat? 😉

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thx1138- t1_itnyt04 wrote

This is not, the greatest fiddle solo in the world, this is just a tribute!

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lthrldy t1_itqzcak wrote

TIL that you can sing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" to "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" and it works perfectly. Thank you!

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SpaceyO2 t1_itm3ebh wrote

Primus did it better...

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resetar t1_itoz7ge wrote

Do you have to be inbred to like this song? Is that the key to enjoying this hee haw symphony of rural kiddy fiddling and lynch mobs?

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loyalfork t1_itmi5fu wrote

the whole song is a putrid rip off of the infinitely more spirited “floopy boot stomp”

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