Killer song! Funny thing, I listened to it a couple times and I was like: this sounds a lot like a Charlie Patton -era delta blues song, I mean not in instrumentation but in … I dunno, structure and word choice I guess. Anyway according to the youtube comments it’s apparently an adaptation of a Robert Johnson song pre-1937. Here it is. More info. There’s nothing quite like the early delta blues, but I really like this modern version of it too.

The youtube video says this is an official video but gotta be a fan-made video based on all the movie clips and the tags in it. Funny how it takes a literal definition of “devil”. I’m pretty sure when Robert Johnson talked about walking with the devil, he meant it figuratively, i.e. living a wicked life, physically abusing his partner and leaving her and knowing he wouldn’t live a long life. When Soap&Skin sings these lyrics it’s a little harder to tell what that “evil spirit” is. It’s probably not one that moves her to literally catch the next Greyhound out of town, and she probably won’t be buried by the side of the road, but the song still works, hinting at a troubled spirit of a different kind.