Satan and Adam

http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/satan_and_adam.html

is that jon bon jovi?

o shoot i was gonna name my site modernbluesharmonica.com

modernblueshammer.com

i have a satan & adam cd, i think it's ok. i only listened to it maybe twice.

There's a thread for these guys? I pulled out their first CD for the first time in forever today, and noticed that Satan (aka Sterling Magee) didn't get any writing credits, and the majority are credited to Mabins/Robinson. A little research turned up the story, including their connection to U2 and their missing royalties:

"Freedom For My People" is a song composed by Sterling Magee, a.k.a., Mister Satan. He's the older black guitar-player/one-man-band who sings the song for 38 seconds in RATTLE AND HUM. I'm the young white guy in the white cowboy hat playing harmonica with him. Although the song was credited in the movie to Sterling Magee, Bobby Robinson, and Macie Mabins, Robinson was merely Magee's informal business advisor at the time and Mabins was his common-law wife. The truth is that Magee wrote the lyrics and chord changes to the song. Because his name was left off the BMI record of the song--which credits its authorship to Robinson and "unnamed," Magee has never gotten his fair share of the roughly $500,000 in royalties that the song has earned since RATTLE AND HUM was released in 1988.

--Adam Gussow
www.modernbluesharmonica.com

Wow, that's alot of royalties. I remember them

I wondered about that amount. Rattle and Hum went 5x platinum, though, so he must be figuring royalties of .10 each.

Another thing I noticed is that one Mabins/Robinson song swipes all of its lyrics from "Don't Let Go," written by Jesse Stone.