Year: 1938
Record label: Vocalia
Worth Today: $12,000*

The song “Me and the Devil Blues” is a blues standard, and the original recording was made on June 19, 1937 in a warehouse-turned-studio in Dallas, Texas. Vinyl 78rpm records sell for thousands for this recording, which was produced by Don Law. Robert Johnson is the songwriter and singer of the single.

Johnson wrote the song, which details him selling his soul to the devil to make music in a Faustian pact. While that’s (likely) not true, Johnson did meet a pretty gruesome end. He was poisoned, allegedly, after he flirted with the wrong woman’s husband. The husband gave him a bottle of poisoned whiskey. He died at age 27.