**New Signal Detected**

The Cipher Collective Podcast just dropped a new **Signal** — and this one hits like a runaway engine.

⚡ **Black Betty — decoded.**

Diablo Cipher takes a legendary riff and runs it through a modern amplifier: harder drums, darker tone, and the kind of raw momentum that refuses to sit still. This episode breaks down the signal behind the track.

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One of my prized possessions, a Spiderbait keychain hanger...wish I could have seen them live..
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Ram Jam - Black Betty

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Original Black Betty

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Mentally, I woke up singing Ram Jam's version of Black Betty. https://song.link/us/i/216088341

...But...but why?

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Black Betty by Ram Jam

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Whoa, Black Betty…

I’m tickled my brain could even see this when looking at a bajillion estate sale photos every week.Photo by Grasons.

It Came From the Estate Sale

Ram Jam's Black Betty seems to be blowing up on TikTok among Gen Z types. The first time I heard it was in the late 1970s. I was in a chalet après-ski. While that might sound "bourgie", I grew up in Quebec and like everyone just skied in winter. There was a slope for every wallet. The one we went to regularly had a cheap ass pommel lift and was one slope that was pretty much a straight on suicide run into the aforementioned chalet. They trusted people to remember to stop before slamming into the cinder block walls painted wood brown. Anyway, I'm in the chalet and this one guy -- young, Fracophone AF, and probably spoke Joual -- dumps about $10 in quarters into the juke box and just plays Black Betty on a continuous loop. Good times. I will always associate that song with 25 cent steamés and weak hot chocolate.

And, man, the lead singer looks like every C64 BBS sysop I ever knew in the 1980s.
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Ram Jam - Black Betty (Official Video)

Official music video for “Black Betty” by Ram Jam Listen to Ram Jam: https://RamJam.lnk.to/bestofYDSubscribe to Ram Jam on YouTube: https://RamJam.lnk.to/sub...

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I liked this three a lot:

2013 version by the Melvins: https://melvinsofficial.bandcamp.com/track/black-betty

The Leadbelly version (date unknown – at least to me): https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=Fii6PX0-VXs

1986 version by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=t22wGvzdi8g

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Black Betty, by Melvins

from the album Everybody Loves Sausages

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