It's gloom and doom Wednesday, with a delightful collection of clunky and maudlin country music disaster songs, from Howard Vokes. You get tales of drunken mamas neglecting their innocent babes, burned up children, drowned children, children flattened under their schooldesks during a cyclone--anyone else seeing a pattern here? It's a thriller from start to finish, with great song titles like "Willie Roy (The Crippled Boy)" and "Yellow Tomb" (spoiler alert: schoolbus accident), and some of the most ham-handed lyrics imaginable--this from "The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus":
Just like a beast in the forest that day,
the abandoned well took Kathy away,
For over two days the well was her tomb,
everyone kept praying they'd get her out soon.
Maybe it doesn't sound that bad, but Mr. Vokes has an interesting way of accenting syllables to fit the words along to the beat. Very creative.
You can actually still buy this whole album on CD, so you only get some of the titles here....I KNOW you will be inspired to go out and buy the whole thing! You'll be sobbing into your PBR, guaranteed.
Tragedy and Disaster in Country Songs - Howard Vokes
2 comments:
Tragedy and Disaster contained within the lyrics of the classic country genre? Isn't that a redundancy?
Ange - Gloom and Doom Wednesday should move over to PCL since I ran out of songs for Car Accident Friday!
You know how much I love this ... it's like an early Xmas gift!
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