Lonesome Fiddle Blues (1948) --> The Devil Went Down To Georgia (1979)

The Devil Went Down to Georgia is written in the key of D minor. Vassar Clements originally wrote the basic melody an octave lower, in a tune called Lonesome Fiddle Blues

The Charlie Daniels Band moved it up an octave and put words to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Went_Down_to_Georgia

Vassar Clements tells the story of the tune he already wrote in 1948. He taught it to Jack Youngblood who recorded the tune in 1954 on the Columbia-label and titled it "Hitch Hiker's Blues".

http://www.discogs.com/Jack-Youngblood-Hitch-Hikers-Blues-Twinkle-Twinkle-Little…

In 1972 Vassar Clements performed the song as a guestmusician on the Will the Circle Be Unbroken album of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

https://open.spotify.com/track/19KqoyhAdVC9KBHEJvSqq1

More versions here:

http://www.deaddisc.com/songs/Lonesome_Fiddle_Blues.htm

JoJo greets

It sounds like the same tune to me, too. Is "Devil..." an adaptation?

A clip of the Youngblood performance is here (I'll leave it to others whether this is the same tune as "Devil"):

Last edit: 2018-08-16 20:41:19 UTC by JeffC

Added the original release by Jack Youngblood

Hitch Hiker's Blues

Perhaps you'd like to add the original, jojo ?!

See also:

Lonesome Fiddle Blues

Quote from Limbabwe

Added the original release by Jack Youngblood

Hitch Hiker's Blues

Perhaps you'd like to add the original, jojo ?!

See also:

Lonesome Fiddle Blues

Erik,

I leave you the honor of adding "Hitch Hiker's Blues".

In these kind of cases (crossreferencing with other works) I always get authorization problems (because I'm not a full editor )

So I'm waiting for the decade when I will be a full editor.

JoJo greets

Last edit: 2023-12-23 15:13:36 UTC by jojo