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Showing posts with label 9/11. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

For 9/11



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Labels: 1920's, 9/11, blind willie johnson, blues, gospel
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Books to Read

  • The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years - Philppe Aries
  • Dance of Death - Holbein
  • I Shot a Man In Reno: A History of Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure As Related in Popular Song - Graeme Thomson
  • Wise Blood - Flannery O' Connor
  • Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Buglosi w/ Curt Gentry
  • Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  • The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and LIberty in the American Ballad
  • American Murder Ballads and Their Stories - Olive Woolley Burt
  • The Complete Stories - Flannery O' Connor
  • Wisconsin Death Trip - Michael Lesy

Albums to Check Out:

  • Rachel Brooke - A Killer's Dream
  • American Primitive Vol 2: Pre-War Revenants 1897-1939
  • American Primitive Vol 1: Raw, Pre-war Gospel
  • Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
  • The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
  • Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
  • Charlie Louvin - Sings Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs
  • Jean Ritchie - Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition
  • Kristen Hersh - Murder, Misery and then Goodnight
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
  • Johnny Cash - American Recordings
  • The Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs of LIfe
  • The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - The Executioner's Last Songs.

Random Things

  • Ginger Beer
  • Cats
  • Women in Hats
  • Day of the Dead Art
  • Old Medicine Bottles
  • Teacups

Blogs of Note

  • Granny Sue's News and Reviews: West Virginia Storyteller Granny Sue's Daily Blog
    Lakeside and Ghosts
    6 days ago
  • Murder by Gaslight
    Sadie and Clarence.
    1 week ago
  • Cult of Weird
    The First Millennial Saint is Here to Bless Us in the Digital Age
    1 year ago
  • Appalachian History
    Appalachian Innovators: Untold Stories of Invention and Ingenuity
    2 years ago
  • Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden
    Emma Borden & Lizzie’s Lock of Hair
    3 years ago
  • ExecutedToday.com
    1939: W. Lee Simpson, rat-hunter
    3 years ago
  • Roman & Minnie's Satanic Cocktail Hour
    Jason Miller & Max von Sydow, The Exorcist (1973)
    5 years ago
  • Appalachian Lifestyles
    Waiting on Dandelions
    9 years ago
  • Day Of The Woman
    “To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!”
    10 years ago
  • DECAYING HOLLYWOOD MANSIONS
    Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills 1940
    10 years ago
  • Read More!
    Happy New Year!
    11 years ago
  • THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA
    71 “Poor Boy Blues” by Ramblin’ Thomas
    13 years ago

Links of Interest

  • Find a Death
  • Joe Bob Briggs - Official Site
  • LAPD Photo Archive
  • Planet Slade
  • Red Hot Jazz Archive
  • Texas Death Row Home Page
  • The Cabinet of Curiosities Podcast
  • The Chirurgeon's Apprentice
  • The Order of the Good Death

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Crimes of passion, crimes of hate, crimes for no reason at all. A blog devoted to exploring songs of murder most foul. Rock, blues, jazz, Appalachian ballads etc.

SSoM will also discuss murder lore, facts and information in general. It will occasionally venture into various "off-topic" areas as well, but will try to stick to the bizarre, the creepy and the strange.

I am by no means a professional music historian. Many of the writings you'll find here are simply my opinions and nothing more.

I pick songs that I either like or interest me from a cultural standpoint. Please feel free to politely suggest a song.




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