Ah October. When the freshly fallen snow and turned leaves fall to cover your tracks by the river bottom where you lured your dear heart with the promise of warm cider and sweet kisses. I guess she didn’t realize you knew she could not be true. This list of contemporaneity and classic murder ballads and general Southern-Gothic debauchery and misery is just the thing for carving pumpkins and ex-lovers. You can hear this at Twang Nation Halloween Mix 2011 mix on Spotify.
Got a favorite grim ditty? Post it below.
- Tenderloud – Shadow Red Hand
- Those Poor Bastards – Nightmare World
- The Handsome Family – The Lost Soul
- Reverend Glasseye – Blood O’ Lambs
- Nina Nastasia/Jim White – The Day I Would Bury You
- Jay Munly – Old Service Road
- Strawfoot – The Lord’s Wrath
- Neko Case – Things That Scare Me
- Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers – Blood on the Bluegrass
- The Pine Box Boys – Arkansas Killing Time
- Sons of Perdition – Blood In The Valley
- Rachel Brooke – This Painful Summer
- Willie Nelson – I Just Can’t Let You Say Good-Bye
- The Walkabouts – Lover’s Crime
- Those Poor Bastards – Family Graveyard
- Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Cranston
- Trailer Bride – Graveyard
- Midnight Choir – Poisoned Veins
- C. Gibbs – Devil’s Water
- Christian Williams – You Ain’t Exempt
- Slackeye Slim – Judgment Day
- Muleskinner Jones – Come Inside, Stranger
- O’Death – Ghost Head
- Steve Von Till – A Grave Is A Grim Horse