What are you listening to right now?

Lounge EndeavourOS pub
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Sweet !

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Something for Halloween:

https://swampdogg.bandcamp.com/album/i-put-a-spell-on-you

20 years old in 1962, Little Jerry Williams [Swamp Dogg in later years] was the opening act for Screamin’ Jay Hawkins at the Capitol Theater in Portsmouth, Virginia
 The lights went dim. The coffin wheeled out onto the stage. The casket top would slowly open as his hand creeped out—just as if he were rising from the dead. He would jump out and walk slowly through the audience while scaring them into a wild panic.

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All this time Screamin’ Jay was doing a cover of Little Jerry?
Or Screamin’ Jay let him use this song?
Either way this song is Legend—even M. Manson’s version is sublime.
edit: this version is awesome

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Choir of Young Believers - Hollow Talk

The Black Ghosts - Full Moon

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A spooky instrumental:

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Who stole that sound?!
:ghost:

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Lyrics for "Eclipse"

Eclipse
When the moon meets the sun
Eclipse
These bodies become as one

People all around
Eyes look up and frown
For it’s a sight they seldom see
Some look through smoked glasses
Hiding their eyes
Others think it’s tragic
Staring as dark meets light

But the sun doesn’t care
And the moon knows no fear
Destiny’s making her choice

Eclipse
The moon has met the sun
Eclipse
Two loves are joined as one

Lyrics for "Weird Nightmare"

Weird nightmare
You haunt my every dream
Weird nightmare
Tell me what’s your scheme?
Can it be that you’re a part
Of a lonely, broken heart?

Weird nightmare
Why must you torment me?
Weird nightmare
Pain and misery
In a heart that’s loved and lost
Take away the grief you’ve caused

Can’t sleep at night
Twist, turn in fright
With the fear that I’ll live it all again
In my dreams
You’re there to haunt me
When you say he doesn’t want me
I’ve been hurt
Do you know what that means?

https://jazzhistoryonline.com/charles-mingus-pre-bird/

Mingus had the heart of a poet and his words are poignant and rich with imagery. In “Eclipse” he metaphorically uses the sun and moon to describe interracial love and the public resistance he and others experienced during this time period. Some look through smoked glasses hiding their eyes, others think it’s tragic sneering as dark meets light. But the sun doesn’t care and the moon has no fear for destiny’s making her choice. Although it is said that he wrote the song for Billie Holiday, Sheila Jordan told me that Mingus approached her to sing the first version of this song because of her interracial marriage with Duke Jordan.

Lorraine Cusson sings a sensuous, breathy rendition demonstrating an astute ear through difficult melodic and harmonic passages. Cusson also sings “Weird Nightmare,” another highly challenging vocal piece with the bass required to play all twelve notes of the chromatic scale winding through a multitude of chord changes in a standard AABA form. During the recording session Cusson accidentally reversed the order of the last line, changing it from Bring me a love with a heart of gold, to Bring me a heart with a love of gold. She assumed Mingus wasn’t upset enough to gamble another cut.

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:jack_o_lantern: :zombie:

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I’m kind of sensing a theme here but I don’t know what it could possibly be about. something about anatomy maybe. It’s hard to decipher, so that’s just a guess


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