![]() ![]() Indeed, its influence is more often felt at a sonic level. The open-E-tuned guitar and voice are alike high, taut terrified and terrifying.Ĭultural critic Greil Marcus notes that unlike Johnson’s more crowd-pleasing songs, “it is interesting that almost no one has tried to make a new version of . . . ‘Hell Hound On My Trail’”. By the last verse, the “wind is rising/ The leaves trembling on the tree”. But around her door she sprinkles “hot foot powder”, a hoodoo deterrent to the unwanted. ![]() He pleads with a lover, his “sweet rider”. ![]() “And the days keeps on worryin’ me/ There’s a hell hound on my trail.” Johnson could be being pursued by the Devil, or by the society in which he lives, or by his own demons. “I got to keep moving”, sings Johnson, “got to keep moving/Blues falling down like hail.” He moans in what could be despair or just the sound of the wind. This is the Mississippi delta as The Seventh Seal.
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