Good evening!
Welcome to the haunted house of blues. As your humble guide and servant, I must warn you. What you are about to hear is not for the faint of heart. The following selections will take you to a dark place—a place where the most prominent psychic inhabitants are fear and foreboding, pain and paranoia, malice and melancholy. A delicious sense of dread pervades these tracks. Tales of murder, lost love, and betrayal get unfolded with somber eloquence—and venom. Fear of the unknown, magic spells, bad omens, and death are among the common themes here. Prepare to be shocked!
And by that, I mean… make yourself comfortable!
Sit back, relax. Light a candle and grab your favorite bottle of booze, if you fancy. Above all, try to remain calm as you take in the haunting, mesmerizing, blood-curdling sounds of…
It Was a Dark and Bluesy Night!
Dredged up from the vaults of Huff, our set begins in the swamps of New Orleans, with a psychedelic, slow-burning, voodoo swamp classic by the Legend of New Orleans himself: the late, great Malcom John Rebbenack, Jr. (AKA Dr. John, the Night Tripper).
Thank you and enjoy your visitation!
R. H., OLDSTYLE GENT.
It Was a Dark and Bluesy Night
I Walk on Guilded Splinters; The Night Tripper
Evil; Howlin’ Wolf
Blue and Lonesome; Little Walter
Hoodoo Blues; Lightnin’ Slim
Blood Thirsty Blues; Victoria Spivey
Dyin’ Crap-Shooter’s Blues; Martha Copeland
Graveyard Dream Blues; Ida Cox
Oh Death; Charlie Patton
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground; Blind Willie Johnson
Swamp Ghost; Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Born Under a Bad Sign; Albert King
Goin’ Down Slow; Big Jack Reynolds
When My Left Eye Jumps; Buddy Guy
Last Kind Words Blues; Geeshie Wilie
St. James Infirmary; Louis Armstrong
Haunted House; Memphis Minnie
Ghost Creepin’ Blues; St. Louis Bessie (Mae Smith)
Hell Hound on My Trail; Robert Johnson
The Downbound Train; Chuck Berry
Moanin’ at Midnight; Howlin’ Wolf
Sinful Woman; Elmore James
Shootin’ Star Blues; Martha Copeland