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He chose an atonal approach for the Devil's music, while employing a much more melodic slant to Johnny's ultimately winning style.

There's no melody to it, there's no nothing. It's just a bunch of noise. Just confusion and stuff. And of course, Johnny's saying something.

You can't beat the Devil without the Lord. I didn't have that in the song, but I should have. Per a note from Daniels' team on Twitter , Daniels and his band are listed as co-writers only because the song is a derivative of the original.

In the order presented in the lyrics they are as follows:. In this version, the devil challenges a DJ named "The Butcher" to a scratching contest. Up for grabs in this version is "turntable of gold". True to the original, the Devil is bested and leaves in disgrace with his minions. The Levellers recorded a live version of this song and released it on a re-issue of their album Levelling the Land.

The devil and the band of demons is represented by the band in hard rock mode, with Jonathan Sevink 's violin featuring as a jarring shriek.

Johnny or perhaps Jonny then plays in a traditional style as would be expected. A live music video was released in September The original version of the song spent fourteen weeks on the Hot Country Singles charts in , peaking at number 1 and holding the position for one week. It spent two weeks at a peak of number 3 on the Billboard Hot Since it became available as download in the digital era, it has sold 1.

In June , Epic Records re-released the song to country radio, but accidentally sent out the version in which the line "son of a bitch" was uncensored. This error was quickly corrected, and the song re-entered the country charts at number 62 for the chart dated June 20, In the sequel, the now-adult Johnny is married and has a child.

Hoping to take advantage of Johnny's sinful pride , the Devil challenges him to a rematch. The Devil snatches the Golden Fiddle from Johnny, and demands that he practice with his old fiddle to play against him. The ending does not state the victor outright, though the music video suggests Johnny won, as does the line "Johnny's still the best that's ever been". The song can be found on Mark O'Connor's album, Heroes. Pop Culture Wiki Explore.

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