Beck - Devil Got My Woman (live cover on British TV)

Beck covers Skip James' "Devil Got My Woman" live on a British TV show in the mid 90's, then talks a little bit about himself, and how he recorded his first hit "Loser".


Sorry about the quality!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Beck
• Skip
• James
• Devil
• Got
• My
• Woman
• Blues

[eimead]

to be fair... becks amazing... and it's pretty shit to say that the colour of your skin determines what music you can play.... if you're argueing that cause it was written by a black man, then surely, by your logic, Li Jie shouldn't approach Bach. he slipped on guitar a bit, but otherwise... great.

[FuzzyCabesas]

eime, the funny thing is that the kid who brought up the whole race thing is a white, suburban kid who tries to play the blues. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that, but he should look in the fucking mirror. If white people can play black music, then brown people (like myself) should be able to play white music. Am I right?

[cl0udtop]

Yeah, taht's right, there are rules, you can only play certain songs if you are the right colour. Idiot. Shame that BB and Albert and Muddy would have to disagree with you, but then I guess you just know more about the blues than they do.

Self righteous frogshit. It's a decent version and if he wants to cover it with respect, who cares where it's from. Are black people from chicago forbiden to play songs by the Who? Shove your musical apartheid up yr clacker. Enjoy the music.

[FuzzyCabesas]

Yes, exactly. Thank you. It's like saying that blacks from New York ghettos in the early 1980's weren't allowed to sample from german dance albums because they knew nothing of technology.

[thahalsey]

anyone like lightnin hopkins?

[tomlovin2]

Poor video and even worse recording, like someone captured a TV broadcast with a camera.

[wickawickawick]

his guitar sounds out of tune

[CitizenDane27]

Anyone that says a cover is not as good as the original is completely missing the point. It's not supposed to be. Beck never thought this'd be as good as the original. He's a music fan playing one of his favorite songs. Simple as that.

[gusset08]

Beck is good but check out Andrew Winton playing Devil Got My Woman. This guy is awesome.

[thailow117]

should be playing it in d-minor tuning. but he does a decent rendition, far better htan his go on 'I'm so glad'.

He did record some pretty specacular albums though.

[ariellehunter]

@thahalsey yeah I love Lightning Hopkins !

[johnjtheoriginal]

i wonder what can't play in the best way this genius...

[w13rdguy]

Imitation is flattery. Thank you, Brits, for popularizing{and thereby preserving} this American art form.

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

Music and art are meant to transcend all boundaries of race and prejudice....

[youhaveaids666]

beck sux