October 21, 2004

I'm Gonna Murder My Baby and nine other creepy songs.

"A typical Memphis blues that plods along menacingly until a frenzied over-amped guitar solo kicks in at the height of which someone screams prompting Hare to say matter-of-factly, "I'm gonna kill that woman". True to his word, in 1964, the Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters side-man shot his girlfriend and a policeman in a horrible finale to a domestic dispute. Hare spent the rest of his life in a Minneapolis prison."

posted by tellurian 20 years ago
  • "from the town of Lincoln, Nebraska/ with a sawed-off .410 on my lap/ through to the badlands of Wyoming/ I killed everything in my path" -Bruce Springsteen, "Nebraska" I don't think anyone has ever described this album without using the word "bleak." Great music, though.
  • Unknown Hinson: over-the-top misogynistic country and western (he pretty much takes the "get back in the kitchen" theme to its logical conclusion).
  • Robert Johnson, demon king of the blues:
    32-20 Blues If I send for my baby and she don't come If I send for my baby man, and she don't come All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none And if she gets unruly thinks she don't wan do If she gets unruly thinks she don't wan do Take my 32-20 now and cut her half in two She got a 38 special but I believe its much too light She got a 38 special but I believe its much too light I got a 32-20, got to make the camps alright If I send for my baby and she don't come If I send for my baby man, and she don't come All the doctors in West Helena sure can't help her none I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my Gatlin gun I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gotta shoot my Gatlin gun You made me love you now your man has come Ah-oh baby where you stay last night Ah-ah baby where you stayed last night You got your hair all tangled and you ain't talkin right Got a 38 special boys, it do very well