Anyone know of anything similar?:
Creepy Blues
Christopher Green
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Gavin Walker
Leadbelly is pretty spooky.
Oliver Sullivan
I always find this one creepy
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Ryder Adams
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probably my favorite blues track.
Angel Mitchell
Pretty much any old blues recorded in the 20s and 30s is going to sound somewhat creepy. The low recording quality gives everything an eerie sound, and the genre is people singing about sad things (and occasionally murder) by themselves.
Skip James stands out as being exceptionally spooky, though, probably because he tuned his guitar to an open minor chord.
Juan Myers
Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
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Josiah Lewis
washington phillips is a weird crossroad of creepy and sweet
Thomas Bailey
>Pretty much any old blues recorded in the 20s and 30s is going to sound somewhat creepy. The low recording quality gives everything an eerie sound, and the genre is people singing about sad things (and occasionally murder) by themselves.
This, but also, stories, movies, and songs in general from back then have a spooky quality, and not just because of the faded / outdated production, and beyond the morbidity of some blues.
Life was much more precarious and sad in the old times. A loved one could and often did die from a common cold or flu, death was much more present. As such, look at old Disney movies or other old cartoons - they're incredibly dark and scary and mournful, and the animation has a wavy, spooky, 'wind-in-the-trees' quality (people also usually lived closer to the countries so the spookiness of old country roads etc was an aspect of one's home town.
Even in songs - the sadness and morbidity of blues and Appalachian songs aside - had a really sad quality. That same wind-in-the-trees quality. Or also that 'sneaking' melody featured a lot, that spooky oogity-boogity melody.
Hell, look at old fairy tales.
William Baker
The creepy quality comes from the "devil's note" more so than anything.
Julian Sullivan
damn this is pretty good, love the ambient sounds
Gavin Ortiz
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>blues/folk or something like that
Brayden Hughes
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This one I found to be super catchy as a kid but I have a distinct memory of the moment I actually thought about the lyrics. Who knew a hick like Guthrie would introduce me to my first truly macabre metaphor
Kevin Anderson
Lol you beat me to it. They printed a phonographic record that was called the Voyager Golden Record and launched it with the Voyager II probe. This is one of the songs that was on that record.
Ian Wood
My fav vid of a live performance: youtu.be
Skip James - Devil Got my woman blues
Absolutely haunting
Brandon Nelson
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not nececarilly straight blues but they basically play out like long winded creepy blues songs
Joseph Garcia
This is about rich people being greedy and how it's pointless because they're going to die. Woody Guthrie was a socialist.
Thomas Reyes
Anthony Fisher
True, althrough Robert Johnson was the best recorded of the bunch and he's still fucking creepy
Juan Adams
the last great bluesman
Zachary Bennett
unironically one of the greatest works of american art ever produced. reducing it to #spooky is a bit insulting t b h.
Jacob Hill
fahey is a fucking god that should be worshipped
Chase Morgan
Benjamin Fisher
who the fuck is this guy
