"The Devil Can Swing" genre: Poetry
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	The Klute meets The Devil and lyricism ensues.
	Credits: The Klute, with your host Bill Campana
	Story Behind the Song Most of my adult life I've been fascinated with things religious and arcane. "Modern" worhsip has never interested me. When I go to church, it better be a Catholic one. With a big columns. And large stained glass windows and a big mortified Christ behind the altar. However, the Devil has always been a mutable concept. He's a fallen angel; he's a your standard demon-y looking thing; he's a handsome, suave gentleman - and in the most recent incarnations - a jazzman. He's been popularly mythologized like that in movies like Danny Elfman's "Forbidden Zone" and on TV like (as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical demon "Sweet") - and the Devil is inexorably linked with Robert Johnson and the birth of blues. This piece has since been reworked to give it a New Orleans feel, but here is the original version - the Devil as a swing band leader playing to the Lost Generation in 1930s Germany. Bill Campana, the Talking Ball of Fire, provides your hosting commentary.

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