#BlueBirdCafe Nashville Tennessee "If you can't rock any crowd. You just suck." (Chasing The devil with God chasing me on this trail. Part 1)

 “Chasing Down The Devil With God Chasing Me On this Trail” lyrical piece

was born one evening at SynergyNights many weeks prior. I was in a bit of a depression. The night’s performers started off with kinky and lewd rhymes, also there were protest rhymes. Then around 10:15 pm the atmosphere changed with highly spiritual themes. Even a couple preacher’s rocked the mic and I thought to myself, “God is making him/herself present to me always reminding me there is an easier way. Always reminding me to keep pressing on and let go of resentments, anger, fear and the other seven deadly sins that I tend to act out on that get me in such trouble. Like “…all the lies I tell myself that are is the distance between me and you.”-this rhyme I created is universal in its creed. Lies such as stereotypes, and creating reasons why people do the things they do-they do these things to harm me. The examples are infinite as time itself.

The easy way, so they say, is to make a deal with the devil. Superstitious claim.  Is it? Consider what some do to get ahead in life. At their jobs they sabotage some one else’s success by talking negative about their peer, set them up to take the brunt of dilemma, or take bribes (quid pro).

…are they ever at peace, when they reach their goal?  Have they forgotten the simple things in life like communicating with others and not trying to one up them?

One of the result of doing dirt is to inevitably feel negative emotions and to be alone. The devil greatest trick is to prove he does not exist.

Been curious about the idea of Tommy Johnson, they say Robert played so well they said he had played so good he must be possessed by the devil-he also left wearing rags came back in suit and tie- He wasn’t possessed by a devil; he just disappeared a while and learned how to play guitar better.

What if one made their selves evil and put the blame of it on ‘the devil?’

Would they change if they truly were honest enough to see a better way.

 After performing at Checkpoint Charlies, I walked the empty streets in New Orleans. I had a AA chip in my pocket  to protect me and thought about it mythological what is this chip was for Charon to allow you access across the Styx river. Click here to learn about Styx River Then I thought “What if the devil was me?”-thus that was the last stanza of “Chasing The Devil With God Chasing Me On This Trail.”click here to watch Chasing down the devil With God chasing me down this trail

 “I am looking for something but every time I get there it’s someplace else. …came so close but I lost it, In a world of sin-I got free will in my pocket.”

Saturday night I was performing my words at #SynergyNights at #TheMed in Jackson MS, the crowd was 300 blacks. I could be as raunchy as I wanted at SynergyNights. Hundreds of miles later, on a Monday night I'm at #TheBlueBirdCafe, the crowds about 300 whites all ages. I had the perfect joint in mind "Going to all the Wrong Places For The Right Things." Click here to see performance at Checkpoint Charlies "Going to all the wrong places for the right thing."The riffs are solid after performing it all summer.

Then I was informed I had to do a song that was family friendly...