Me and the devil blues

It may seem strange that in the black country South of the twenties and thirties, where the leap to grace of gospel music was at the heart of the community, the blues singers, in a twisted way, were the real Puritans. These men, who had to renounce to be sanctified, who often sneered at the preachers in their songs, were the ones who really believed in the devil; they feared the devil most because they knew him best. They understood, far better than the preachers, why sex was man’s original sin, and they sang about little else.

Greil Marcus, en Mystery Train, hablando de los viejos bluesmen. Hacía tiempo que quería releer este libro, para muchos el mejor que se ha escrito sobre rock’n'roll. Desde luego es el mejor que yo haya leído.