Devil Got My Woman
Can we explain this tune, and should we try?
The movie Ghost World tells us that people who are obsessed with old blues records are creeps, but also that old blues records are worth being obsessed with. There's a pivotal scene where Enid, the young protagonist, hears "Devil Got My Woman" by Skip James, and reacts to it in much the same way that I do.
"There are no other records like that." No, there really aren't.
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