The Desert Island Songs #1 - Friend Of The Devil - Grateful Dead

If I was on a desert island ?


Ok, I want this song, Friend Of The Devil.

This was written by the legendary band Grateful Dead in their 1970 LP American Beauty.

I must have listen to it a thousand times. There's something deeply melancholic.

The story is about a man, on the run from the police, "trailed by twenty hounds", and helped by the devil.

I can feel hope, but in the same time, I feel he won't ever go home, and see his "sweet Anne Marie".

Will the Devil find him back ? Or The Sheriff ? You don't know.

Everytime the song begins, this is new journey. I can see him running in fields, I see the sunlight going down. I hear hounds barking.

Jerry Garcia's voice is great, and man, these guitars !!

I want that song on the island, because there's everything in it. This is mankind.

Now listen to it, and tell me if you feel the same way.