There's no melody to it, there's no nothing. "If you listen to that, there's just a bunch of noise. "The Devil's just blowing smoke," Daniels explained. He chose an atonal approach for the Devil's music, while employing a much more melodic slant to Johnny's ultimately winning style. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" centers around Daniels' unique spoken-word delivery, as well as two very different musical interludes in which Daniels performs extended fiddle passages in very different styles to represent Satan and Johnny's playing. He didn't use that line, but I started playing, and the band started playing, and first thing you know we had it down." "Well, I think I might know where it came from, it may have come from an old poem called 'The Mountain Whippoorwill' that Stephen Vincent Benet wrote many, many years ago, that I had in high school. "I don't know where it came from, but it just did," Daniels reflected. In Daniels' telling, Satan challenges a brash young fiddle player named Johnny to a fiddling contest, promising him, "I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul, 'cause I think I'm better than you." The uptempo song gives a country twist on an old theme of Satan standing at the crossroads to tune a musician's guitar and give them a musical gift in return for their soul.
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