Folk Songs About the Devil

The Devil, Satan, Old Scratch, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, Mephistopheles, etc. The number of the Beast is 666. See also Halloween.

"The Devil's Courtship"
Battlefield Band (Celtic)

Kate Rusby - Hill on A Hill (lyrics - oh darling let's go over now that the devil is here}  album "Awkward Annie"
Louvin Brothers - Satan Lied to Me on the lp "The Family Who Prays"
Porter Wagoner\ Satan's River\ Wagonmaster\ Anti-
The Bluegrass Brothers\ Devilish Plan\ Appalachian Memories\ Self
The Canote Bros.\ Chased Old Satan\ Calico Pie\ CloneTone
Del Rey\ Devil Call Your Name\ Boogie Mysterioso\ Hobemian
June Tabor\ The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn\ Ashes and Diamonds\ Green Linnet
The Wailin' Jennys\ The Devil's Paintbrush Road\ Firecracker\ Red House

[played and liked 6/6/06]
Goins Brothers\ Run Satan, Run\ Run Satan, Run\ Hay Holler
Martin Simpson\ The Devil's Partiality\ Righteousness & Humidity\ Red House
Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen\ Friend of the Devil\ Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen\ Rounder
The Red Stick Ramblers\ The Devil with the Devil\ Right Key, Wrong Keyhole\ MerLess
The Gibson Brothers\ Satan's Jeweled Crown\ Long Way Back Home\ Sugar Hill
Skip James\ Devil Got My Woman\ Complete Early Recordings\ Yazoo
Bruce Molsky\ We'll All Go To Heaven When the Devil Goes Blind\ Big Hoedown\ Rounder
Mark Graham & Orville Johnson\ Neighbor of the Beast\ Kings of Mongrel Folk\ Self

[also]
Peter Rowan\ Deal with the Devil\ Crucial Country\ There
The Devil's in the Details - Lowen & Navarro - All the Time in the World - Red Hen - 2004
Friend of the Devil - Chris Smither (Grisman/Garcia) - Another Way to Find You - Flying Fish - 1991
The Devil in Me - Cliff Eberhardt - 12 Songs of Good and Evil - Red House - 1997
The Devil's Real - Chris Smither - Live as I'll Ever Be - Hightone - 2000
The Devil's Deal - Michael Fracasso - A Pocketful of Rain - Lone Star - 2004
The Devil Had a Hold of Me - Gillian Welch (Welch/Rawlings) - Hell Among the Yearlings - ALM - 1998
The Devil & Robert Johnson - Tom Dean - Your Own Back Yard - Self - 1998
Devil Baby - Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream - Warner Bros. - 2002
The Beast in Me - Martin Sexton - The American - Atlantic - 1998

Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplan\ Satan's Paradise\ Lost John Dean\ Compass
Martin Simpson/ Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down/ Gourd Music
UNCLE TUPELO / Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Darcie Deaville: Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (...Plays the Fiddle and Sings)
Uncle Tupelo: Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (March 16 - 20, 1992)

Rev. Billy C. Wirtz\ Sleeper Hold on Satan\ Backslider's Tractor Pull\ Hightone

Satan's Jeweled Crown - The Louvin' Brothers
Emmylou Harris: Satan's Jewel Crown (Best of Bluegrass II {various artists})

The Stairwell Sisters\ Chased Old Satan\ The Stairwell Sisters\ yodel-ay-hee
RED CLAY RAMBLERS / "Satan's Choir" / It Ain't Right [Flying Fish]
Steel Creek Bluegrass Band: Satan's Bell (Leaving You Is Killing Me)

Blind Boy Grunt - Talking Devil - Broadside compilation
Tex Ritter: Let Me Go Devil (American Legend)
Lightnin' Hopkins: The Devil Jumped the Black Man (How Many More Years I Got)
Garcia & Grissman: Friend of the Devil (Jerry Garcia / David Grisman)
Peter Rowan: Deal With the Devil (All On a Rising Day)
Gaelic Storm -- "The Devil Went Down To Doolin" -- HERDING CATS -- [OnTown]
Charlie Daniels: Devil Went down to Georgia
Alison Brown/ Devil Went Down to Berkley/ Fair Weather/ Compass

Madwoman Blues
Old Scratch
All Souls Day/Wee Rabbit

Thea Gilmore / Beelzebub / Songs from the Gutter

DAVID WIFFEN: Lucifer's Blues (D Wiffen)
South of Somewhere: True North - TND-186

Brewer & Shipley / "Shake Off The Demon" / Best Of Brewer & Shipley / Buddha
Michael Smith or Tim O'Brien - Demon Lover

Slaid Cleaves
Devil's Lullaby
Unsung
Rounder

Hellhound on My Trail
Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings II
Columbia C2K46222

Me and the Devil Blues
Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings II
Columbia C2K46222

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