If the terms piedmont, rags & americana ring any bells in your psyche then Chris Cotton's debut release for Yellow Dog Records, "I Watched The Devil Die" will really get your juices flowing. The former Blue-Eyed Devils frontman, recorded under the watchful eye of Jim Mathus in his vintage-equipped studio located in the old WROX Radio building, Clarksdale, Mississippi, is aided & abetted by Hamilton Rott (violin) Lee Williams (drums) Barry Bays (bass) Adam Woodard (piano) Jim Mathus (banjo, drums, gtr) Olga (perc, violin) The Clarksdale Hummingbirds (backing vocals) & none other than Big Jack Johnson (slide gtr). Cotton arrived in Clarksdale from California with just 4 songs ready to record, he & Jim soon formulated the "loose, spontaneous jam" plan of action & that's exactly what was captured, mostly in one take . . . delicious.