McCoy's run at the devil theme is similar: “I'd rather be the devil than be my woman's man . . . Oh, she was evil, wouldn't work hand in hand.” Temple's version follows suit, but with a morbid twist: “I'd rather be dead and in my ...
Author: Barry Lee Pearson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252075285
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floats in the piece, seems to place the sentiment and ambience in a hazy psychological otherworld—deliberately, of course: I'd rather be the devil [than] to be that woman's man. I'd rather be the devil [than] to be that woman's man.
Author: Steven Carl Tracy
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318658
Category: Literary Criticism
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Skip James: Devil Got My Woman. USA: Vanguard VSD-79273, 1968. Anon. “Son House Records as Skip James Recovers. ... (NOTE: Excerpted from I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues. New York: Da Capo, 1994.) Calt, Stephen.
Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135865086
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The devil was stronger than I was, an' he did have, and is got now, a certain amount of power . . . And he lives in Hell, ... —Skip James I'd rather be the devil, to be that woman man,* I'd rather be the devil, to be that woman man.
Author: Stefan Grossman
Publisher: Oak Publications
ISBN: 1783234547
Category: Music
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Stephen Calt, I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues (Chicago, IL, 2008), p. 100. Ibid., p. 211. Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: AfroAmerican Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom [1977] (Oxford, 2007), ...
Author: John Scanlan
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780235518
Category: Music
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attention to the Grieve family instead. ... Instead, the detective holds Shand for an hour and then lets him go. ... Rankin brings back Shand, the “one-man freak show” (RBD 64), 15 years later, in Rather Be the Devil.
Author: Erin E. MacDonald
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786471883
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Note also that staggering occurs in the last two stanzas: 13 I'd rather be the devil, to be that woman's man I'd rather be the devil, to be that woman's man Oh nothing but the devil changed my baby's mind Oh nothing but the devil ...
Author: Michael Taft
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135485925
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however, he plucked with his fingernails like a classical guitarist, rather than using his fingers or a pick. He also used D minor, rather than open, ... I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues. New York: Da Capo, 1994.
Author: Edward Komara
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135958327
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however, he plucked with his fingernails like a classical guitarist, rather than using his fingers or a pick. He also used D minor, rather than open, ... I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues. New York: Da Capo, 1994.
Author: Edward M. Komara
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415926998
Category: Music
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