KORN SHARE COVER OF THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND “THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA” featuring YELAWOLF ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AWAKENING YOUTH - AVAILABLE NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON BANDCAMP
By Tank American Nu Metal band, Korn has launched a campaign to help support the nonprofit organization, Awakening Youth. Korn has always been known as a band that recognizes and supports various social efforts. Now they are out to help Awakening Youth. This is a cause that Korn guitarist and co-founder Brian “Head” Welch”, really takes to heart. Awakening Youth was featured in the documentary Loud Krazy Love, which was about Brian. Awakening Youth is a nonprofit organization that helps young people that have lost a parent through death, divorce, addiction, and adoption, among other reasons. For this occasion, Korn has recorded a rendition of the legendary Charlie Daniels Band hit, “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.” They have published the song on Bandcamp, and it is for sale for only $2 a download, which is a bargain. All of the proceeds from this download release will be donated to Awakening Youth. This continues the mutual job Korn and Awakening Youth are doing when they included the non-profit organization in the documentary, Loud Krazy Love. Awakening Youth is an extraordinary program that provides a mission to uplift young men and women in the recovery process after losing a parent. It provides a one on one support system to help motivate and restore families in crisis. The song features a fantastic collaboration between Korn fronton, Jonathan Davis
multitude of fans over the years. In fact, they and YelaWolf. The two get together in the have done so well for themselves, that they song and trade of verses as they assume the have sold of 40 million albums and received roles of “Johnny” and “The Devil”, making two GRAMMY® Awards, not to mention for one helluva inspirational song. Korn their Sold-Out shows all over the world. proceeds to really tear it up in this song Korn’s version of “The Devil Went battling it out with some really intense Down To Georgia” was recorded during the dueling guitar leads. The song sounds sessions for the band’s most recent album, sensational. This indeed puts a new take on The Nothing, which was released just last the song, and “The Devil Goes Down To year. It is the thirteenth studio album Georgia” is likely to become a hit again after released by the group. The Nothing hit the this release. Billboard Charts at number eight when it was Jonathan Davis was really ecstatic about re-recording the song and tells us, “I’ve released. According to Jonathan Davis, the name of the album was inspired by a villain always said it, but country music is some of from The NeverEnding Story. the darkest ever. Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and, of course, Charlie Daniels all turned pain into some really powerful music that sounded alive. ‘The Devil Went Down To Georgia’ is a classic story, and we wanted to release it now to help others in need.” We would like to urge the readers of Rock And Blues International to join in with this great cause. Go to Bandcamp, and download this song to help out in a really great cause. Our sincere praise goes out to Korn and Yela Wolf for this great collaboration and we hope it really brings some much-deserved attention to this organization. Since the GRAMMY® Awardwinning band Korn released their first self-titled debut album, they have created quite a legacy. The band has become one of Rock’s most popular acts, gathering a September 2020 • Rock and Blues International 79
