Season 09 Episode 10: Me and the Devil Blues
Unexplained
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4.4 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sometime in the mid 1930s, a young budding bluesman appeared on the scene, suddenly possessed of a talent for playing the guitar, which he’d never shown before.
Over time a strange rumour began to spread, that the young man hadn't achieved his talent all on his own...
Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Hello, it's Richard McLean Smith here with a couple of announcements. |
| 0:07.6 | After the amazing success of last year's Crime Wave at Sea, I'm excited to announce that we'll |
| 0:12.1 | be setting sale again next year, February 8th to the 12th of 2027. |
| 0:16.8 | I can't tell you enough how much I enjoyed this last year, and I'll be participating fully |
| 0:20.6 | next year with the show. |
| 0:22.0 | So if you fancy some spooky true crime on a cruise round the Bahamas, this one's for you. |
| 0:27.2 | Go to crimewave at sea.com for more information. |
| 0:30.2 | Tickets will go on sale on Friday, February the 13th, so listen out for more announcements there. |
| 0:35.1 | Further to that, I'm also hugely excited to say I'll be |
| 0:37.5 | attending CrimeCon, US and UK this year. So for the US, we're going to be in Las Vegas, |
| 0:42.9 | 28 to the 31st of May. Go to crimecon.com to buy tickets and use voucher code unexplained for 10% |
| 0:49.1 | off. And in the UK, we'll be in Birmingham on April the 25th and London on the 3rd and 4th of October. |
| 0:55.5 | These are all really special events that do a lot to put survivors of crime front and centre |
| 0:59.7 | and I'm really honoured to be taking part. |
| 1:02.0 | For CrimeCon UK, go to crimecon.com.uk to buy tickets |
| 1:06.0 | and again use voucher code unexplained for 10% off. |
| 1:09.6 | You can also find all the links on my website at Unexplainedpodcast.com forward slash events. |
| 1:26.8 | In British society at least, we tend to prefer that people wear their talent lightly, |
| 1:32.3 | but such attitudes tend to come with a few caveats, largely to do with class and race. |
| 1:39.3 | For those that we might consider to be in the higher reaches of the British class system, it's all |
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