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The Devil Got A Hold Of Me

by String Bone

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‘The Devil Got A Hold Of Me’ is the latest single from String Bone’s anticipated 3rd full-length release ‘Coping Mechanisms’ coming soon.

String Bone brainchild, Canadian singer-songwriter Barry James Payne, has been releasing music under the String Bone moniker since 2008. Moving from acoustic folk to Alt.Country, Blues and Rock, Payne’s lyrics often touch on taboo subjects as in this case.

Payne gets dark again on this song about origins and the resulting perceptions, being born into poverty vs privilege, luck vs talent and the legend of Robert Johnson meeting the devil at the crossroads. This song would fit perfectly as the intro to Orange Is The New Black or No Country For Old Men, a Robert Johnson or Blues documentary and on any Electric Slide Blues-Stomp/Rock playlist - pulsating, seductive, menacing, intense and relentless.

With dual slide guitar slingers, Rick Taylor (Leonard Cohen, Willie P. Bennett) and Jamie Ransley duking it out for the best hooks, and a searing, vicious violin solo by Newfoundlander, Alison Corbett, that explodes into the stratosphere, Barry James Payne professes the character’s confirmations, protestations and damnations in an intense energy-infused tone of righteous self-preservation. Carried by Jay Riehl’s bombastic Rain Dogs-esque drumming a la Tom Waits, but heavier, waaaaay heavier, the song inches towards an all-out jam and stays up in a fever pitch until the end.

Written, recorded and produced by Barry James Payne of Canada and production partner George Leger III (Nickelback, Sophie B Hawkins), a Canadian ex-pat now living in Las Vegas, their approach was, “let’s make this the sister song, production-wise, to ‘Wow! Oh Yeah!’, but with a Stomp-Blues rhythmic panic attack”. And that they did.

The cover design by graphic artist Steve Good of Good Work Design Ink.,
imagines meeting the devil at the crossroads, as legend has it.

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released February 3, 2023

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Americana to the bone, Canadiana in the heart & soul

Many of Payne's songs on 'Love & Highways' & 'nadir' drive through darkness, betrayal and remorse towards love, light, escape and freedom on the road with String Bone at the wheel.

Payne shares struggles with relationships, and wrestles in the aftermath of lost wishes and broken dreams with an eye towards the next adventure. ... more

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