Currently on tour in the UK and Europe to promote 2019’s ‘Everything is Fine’, Amigo The Devil has released a unique take on the classic ‘Delilah’, made famous by Tom Jones in 1968. Amigo The Devil (also-known-as Danny Kiranos) says of the cover: “I remember hearing Tom Jones songs around my parents and their friends when I was young. At the time, I didn’t process how dark some of them really are. ‘Delilah’, for example, is usually such a drunkard karaoke sing-along that I feel like most people still don’t notice it. My version came from wondering what it would sound like to match the mood of the song with the content of the story being told.”
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Amigo the Devil announces 2020 UK tour
If you have ever heard a room full of people yelling “I hope your husband dies” in some harmoniously sloppy, drunken unison, then you will have stumbled into an Amigo The Devil show. Danny Kiranos, better known as his musical alter ego, has spent the last few years challenging the expectations of traditional folk, country music purists and rock/extreme metal fans alike with his morbid, yet oddly romantic take on the Americana tradition and has cultivated a dedicated fanbase Stateside. Continue reading “Amigo the Devil announces 2020 UK tour”