Inspired initially by the [[Chicago]] school of [[electric blues]] (particularly the South-Side variation), they later took in influences from the [[country blues]] artists of the 1930s such as [[Skip James]] and [[Robert Johnson]]. Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have often taken issue with the band's many songs about drugs (e.g. "Sister Morphine", "Mother's Litle Helper") and perceived references to Satanism such as "Sympathy for the Devil." | Inspired initially by the [[Chicago]] school of [[electric blues]] (particularly the South-Side variation), they later took in influences from the [[country blues]] artists of the 1930s such as [[Skip James]] and [[Robert Johnson]]. Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have often taken issue with the band's many songs about drugs (e.g. "Sister Morphine", "Mother's Litle Helper") and perceived references to Satanism such as "Sympathy for the Devil." |