It was supposed to be a simple favor, a chance for some quick and easy money, a chance to repay a debt to an old friend. But for Django Jake Shepherd, self-described Nashville expatriate and itinerant troubadour, few things in his world are ever simple, quick, or easy. This time his loyalty and grit will take him from the casinos of north Mississippi deep into the heart of the Delta, to the unforgiving fields that gave birth to the Blues, the smoke-filled juke joints and Hoodoo hideaways, a mystic place where every man comes to his own Crossroads with a chip and a chair to ante up his soul against a stacked deck.and the Devil is Dealing.