Way back in time when the Delta blues was in its infancy and the backwaters of the Mississippi was alive to the sound of the new music there were no pedals to change the sound. The instruments were un-amplified.
Here we have a Dunlop Cry Baby, there are various models often used in funk and blues. When Robert Johnson made the mythical pact with the devil he was told that if he hung around long enough there would be great new wonders. Of course he didn't live to see such things. And I almost certainly made all of that up.
We can only guess at what sense Robert Johnson would have made of the classic Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.
Unfortunately my prowess in using these devices was in no way helped by shaking the hand of David "Honeyboy" Edwards, a friend of Robert Johnson's who was present the night that Johnson was poisoned in 1938. Edwards was only about 80 when I tried to absorb some of his skill, and he was still very, very good, and didn't claim to have made a pact with anyone. None of that class rubbed off or was transferred to me directly, indirectly or from Johnson either by any degree of separation.
Maybe I should go down to the crossroads at midnight and attempt to make a pact with the devil, or the modern equivalent in government. Though I suspect the only thing I'd get down at the crossroads now is run over.
Will this do?
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