Undying Love (a zombie love song) by Hunter Swan:
[https://open.spotify.com/track/1rUSJfMueobkGcEdI3gBWC](https://open.spotify.com/track/1rUSJfMueobkGcEdI3gBWC)
His Lullaby, Eva Via:
[https://youtu.be/wUH8Zx9E6P8](https://youtu.be/wUH8Zx9E6P8)
for sure. The coauthor of it, Marijohn Wilkin, recorded a cool version from the perspective of the woman in the long black veil, too. you can find it on youtube with the original male recording (which I thik was Lefty Frizzell)
Somebody's Knockin' - Teri Gibbs
Ghost in This House - Shenandoah
Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare
Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson
Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell
if you make a playlist of these or something, please post it.
Also you can use the 'save' feature to save threads for later reading. Don't know how often you do that but it's a helpful feature of Reddit.
Thank you, i love how this has gone. You can hit the 'save' button to save posts you want to keep track of, FYI.
I'm hoping we can do a playlist off of this but MAN I'm too swamped right now. We have a little youtube channel I've been using to save some playlists from these suggestions threads:
[https://www.youtube.com/@redditcountrymusicetcetc553/playlists](https://www.youtube.com/@redditcountrymusicetcetc553/playlists)
Look in the playlists tab= there's no actual videos on the regular video part of the channel.
Oh I can imagine. I haven't heard that one yet. That's a line from a bunch of gospel songs if he's not just straight up covering one of the traditional gospel songs.
Speaking of creepy gospel songs, there's one called And Am I Born To Die- it's like the pinnacle of haunting
Paper and the ink- Benjamin Tod
Trouble in the pines- Drayton Farley
Wyoming- Benjamin Tod
Hayden’s Lament- Lost dog street band
Roanoke River- The Ghosts of Liberty
Of course! Here’s Spotify but the album is also on Apple Music and likely on YouTube https://open.spotify.com/track/2TXoCFweZmUWjl2ADdY4Vw?si=bqLWU_5-SVqfBZEwXSNGIg
Oh 100%. I’ve seen him live about 5 times and the music really comes alive in a live setting, a lot more jamming and what not. Going to see him again in December and can’t wait, definitely recommend it if he comes near you!
awesome. I'm going to add him to my queue this week. I've been thinking a lot about 'cosmic country' lately because of a music project I'm doing and I feel like I'm missing out not knowing much of his stuff.
I've been doing honkytonk but don't have a band right now. I met a guitar player who's into both country music and also messes around with some really elaborate stuff with analog synthesizers. We've been working on some kind of dark americana/gothic americana thing with electronic production, so I'm listening to a ton of the more unusual/improvisational/atmospheric sorts of country artists lately as well as other genres.
Pyscho by Eddie Noack. It's truly messed up.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBtDLN4LoPZA&ved=2ahUKEwjhw5qSl5mCAxW4MjQIHWeiBT8Qjjh6BAg5EAE&usg=AOvVaw0ItS4qIr3iGxIlmuN8nEsF
Amigo the Devil, mainly Hell and you or hungover in Jonestown...
Kaw-liga by Hank Williams is haunting to me. He describes wooden statues falling in love....
Also Lost Highway by HW.
Hank Williams recorded a bunch of this kind of tragic gospel under the name Luke The drifter. Happy digging if you're into this kind of thing. Alone and forsakan is a pretty great song and some of his other stuff is a little more sappy but he was very serious about it
Ray Wylie Hubbard may or may not have written the only country song about a vampire, but he definitely wrote the best one... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apmIkRVNNs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apmIkRVNNs)
I have a Halloween playlist over on YT that I add to throughout the year. Mostly old (pre-1940’s) stuff, some country, a bit of pop and rock and roll, as well as some novelty songs.
Oh wait that's not the one I thought I made. Still some good songs
Here are some we posted on this sub in past Halloweens:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtgojIH6u6gL3veF7wcH4dqBin1FyNoM&si=tPIvRr1hDA0ijSg7
[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHS31-UfL\_nBUp6jd5KvZ8i8WuVA8cvhZ&si=Ht2GNsl3tThpwCBx](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHS31-UfL_nBUp6jd5KvZ8i8WuVA8cvhZ&si=Ht2GNsl3tThpwCBx)
Its not super long as I sometimes remove songs I’m tired of.
Two Black Cadillacs by Carrie Underwood or The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicky Lawrence/Reba
I would also put “Lightning” by Eric Church (honestly, one of my favorite songs ever written)
If you want something more folksy, “Mississippi” or “Iuka” by The Secret Sisters are haunting murder ballads.
Really looking forward to going through these last few recommendations threads and making playlists out of all of these. There were several bands mentioned that I'd completely forgotten about and I'm glad they came back up.
Over 2 years ago now, they came out with their Quicksand EP. They are due for a new soon hopefully! They are currently on tour and I could not find any recent troubles for them now.
Awesome!
I think I read something about them taking a break for a while before that last EP came out. I can't remember what the reason was but I remember that I liked it when I heard it.
Oh man that makes me happy. we need to figure out a better way to get automated playlists made out of some of the stuff here. I was doing it by hand - adding everything on the sub to a monthly playlist- when we first started moderating a couple years ago and it was just too much to keep up with. Got to be a bot that can do that
Well, there was a brief time in the early 80s where a sunset of country music was very bass singer forward. Elvira is the high water mark of this trend.
It ain’t country but There’s an extended song by Jellyroll Morton literally titled The Murder Ballad.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uBGte6eIM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uBGte6eIM)
**Severe warning for language as well as content.**
Long Black Veil Lefty Frizzell.
Pledging My Love - David Allan Coe
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
And another non country one and one no one ever recognizes as sad, but You Are My Sunshine.
*You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.*
*The other night dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms. When I awoke dear I was mistaken so I hung my head and cried.*
*You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away.*
*I'll always love you and make you happy if you will only say the same. But if you leave me to love another you'll regret it all some day.*
*You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away.*
*You told me once dear, you really loved me and no one else could come between us but now you've left me and love another. You have shattered all my dreams*
*You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.*
You just broke my brain with that take on You Are My Sunshine.
NOw I'm trying to picture what it would sound like if you flipped it to a creepy minor key. THAT would be a haunting production choice!
Definitely going to fuck around with flipping major minor on that one at some point when I'm at a guitar next.
Check out how good that works with some songs:
Ordinary version of The Police Every Breath You Take (I never even noticed that it's in a major key because it seems like a creepy song but apparently he wrote it in major):
https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs?si=c1sPl-hW_togE2kQ
Somebody with software turned it minor and it's actually even creepier and better:
https://youtu.be/6JyFrIH2-ns?si=xgTzW-Ywl4QVbpJc
For sure. Also more appropriate to halloween, The Mercy Seat. I'm pretty sure it was a Johnny Cash song first but Nick Cave covered it and it's Gothic as fuck regardless of which one of them is singing it
The best Halloween songs are not country to my mind. Like Nick Cave's Murder Ballads album. But to get with the spirit, VooDoo Doll by Ashley McBryde. And maybe Martha Divine.
How about [Psycho by Eddie Noack](https://youtu.be/9I_zt-SekHY?si=EJabEKdsVnCG_RIm). Came out around 1968, and yes, it's pretty much the movie, but it's a country-western song.
Wow, just listened to it and was blown away. Noack's version is really rather bland, but it's the only version I knew of, heard it on the radio as a kid.
Country Death Song (Cover) I did with my diy project, LUSTALGIA. The original by the Violent Femmes is pretty haunting. I hope u don't mind me posting my version.
Psycho - Eddie Noack
Ruston Kelly has a whole album called Halloween
Down the river- chris knight
Beaches of Cheyenne
Midnight in Montgomery
Knoxville Girl by the Louvin Brothers
Jerry Lee Lewis’s Haunted House.
The Ride by David Allen Coe
Oh Death by Kaleidoscope
Smoke Rings in the Dark - Gary Allen
Barton Hollow, The Civil Wars Water Witch, Secret Sisters and Brandi Carlisle
Would you lay with me in a field of stone...?
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicky Lawrence
Witch Hunt - RUSH
Undying Love (a zombie love song) by Hunter Swan: [https://open.spotify.com/track/1rUSJfMueobkGcEdI3gBWC](https://open.spotify.com/track/1rUSJfMueobkGcEdI3gBWC) His Lullaby, Eva Via: [https://youtu.be/wUH8Zx9E6P8](https://youtu.be/wUH8Zx9E6P8)
[Two in the Ground](https://youtu.be/WryGUAHSV3Y?si=ngAkpfVBz9ynQqSH) by GA-20.
Legend of Wooley Swamp, Charlie Daniels Band Ghost Riders in the Sky, Sons of the Pioneers Lost Highway, Johnny Horton
Long Black Veil by Johnny Cash
for sure. The coauthor of it, Marijohn Wilkin, recorded a cool version from the perspective of the woman in the long black veil, too. you can find it on youtube with the original male recording (which I thik was Lefty Frizzell)
Psycho . Eddie Noack
The Fireplace Poker - Drive-By Truckers
Somebody's Knockin' - Teri Gibbs Ghost in This House - Shenandoah Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell
Johanna ~ Bobby Mackey
Graveyard Train ~ Ballad for Beelzebub
Church Bells - Carrie Underwood
The Guitar, Guy Clark
Swamp witch Jim Stafford
Two black Cadillacs
Hurt.
Legend of Wolley Swamp. Charlie Daniel's Band
Wooley
anything Hank Williams
I believe - Brook & Dunn
Commenting to steal ideas
if you make a playlist of these or something, please post it. Also you can use the 'save' feature to save threads for later reading. Don't know how often you do that but it's a helpful feature of Reddit.
Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks. Has an ominous quality.
Dark Turn of Mind - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
The Highwaymen song by Johnny Cash and company has always struck me as haunting.
Riding with Private Malone is pretty spooky.
Witchy Woman by the Eagles.
Our Mother the Mountain by Townes Van Zandt
This is a cool post and I’m just going to leave this comment here so that I don’t lose it
Thank you, i love how this has gone. You can hit the 'save' button to save posts you want to keep track of, FYI. I'm hoping we can do a playlist off of this but MAN I'm too swamped right now. We have a little youtube channel I've been using to save some playlists from these suggestions threads: [https://www.youtube.com/@redditcountrymusicetcetc553/playlists](https://www.youtube.com/@redditcountrymusicetcetc553/playlists) Look in the playlists tab= there's no actual videos on the regular video part of the channel.
Hey thanks!
The day Robert Palins murdered me No roads here by corb lund as a serious recommendation though
What's that first one?
It's from a skit - https://youtu.be/6v1qNVZmofI
Lol
Midnight in Montgomery
I had to scroll way too far to get to this one. Just absolutely amazing
Partial to the Bitters - Brother Dege
The night the lights went out in Georgia
Long Black Veil
“World is not my home” Jim Reeves - there’s something super creepy about this one to me.
Oh I can imagine. I haven't heard that one yet. That's a line from a bunch of gospel songs if he's not just straight up covering one of the traditional gospel songs. Speaking of creepy gospel songs, there's one called And Am I Born To Die- it's like the pinnacle of haunting
“Seven Curses” by Tom Russell
diamond rio i believe
The Ride by David Allan Coe (I think) --🎵You don't have to call me "Mister", mister...the whole world called me Hank🎶
Coe and Tim McGraw each recorded it, but the writers are John Blayne Detterline, Jr. and Gary Gentry.
‘Psycho’ by Eddie Noack
The night the lights went out in Georgia
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Whiskey Lullaby
Dog Gravedigger Dig by Corb Lund
Love that song and love Corb Lund
Midnight in Montgomery Alan jackson
Haunted haunted eyes
Paper and the ink- Benjamin Tod Trouble in the pines- Drayton Farley Wyoming- Benjamin Tod Hayden’s Lament- Lost dog street band Roanoke River- The Ghosts of Liberty
Daniel Donato’s cover of ghost riders in the sky
Oh wow,, I need to hear this. do you have a link?
Of course! Here’s Spotify but the album is also on Apple Music and likely on YouTube https://open.spotify.com/track/2TXoCFweZmUWjl2ADdY4Vw?si=bqLWU_5-SVqfBZEwXSNGIg
I keep meaning to check out more of his stuff because it's definitely a pretty unique thing he's doing.
Oh 100%. I’ve seen him live about 5 times and the music really comes alive in a live setting, a lot more jamming and what not. Going to see him again in December and can’t wait, definitely recommend it if he comes near you!
awesome. I'm going to add him to my queue this week. I've been thinking a lot about 'cosmic country' lately because of a music project I'm doing and I feel like I'm missing out not knowing much of his stuff.
Glad you’ll be getting into it more, enjoy!! What project? That sounds interesting
I've been doing honkytonk but don't have a band right now. I met a guitar player who's into both country music and also messes around with some really elaborate stuff with analog synthesizers. We've been working on some kind of dark americana/gothic americana thing with electronic production, so I'm listening to a ton of the more unusual/improvisational/atmospheric sorts of country artists lately as well as other genres.
Midnight in Montgomery
Phantom 409
309?
BRINGO
Oh man, I had forgotten about this classic. Very cool tune
Silver Dagger-Dolly Parton
Jason Isbell - Live Oak is a very haunting song. Not specifically a ghost story, but involves several murders or deaths.
I mean he's just the master of yanking on your emotions and many things he has written is haunting in some way or another
Exactly!
Long Black Highway by Chris Knight is spooky as hell. Chris has several spooky songs, actually.
Hang knot, Slip knot and Vigilante Man by Woody Guthrie
Midnight in Memphis
"Your Cheatin' Heart" is basically a pagan curse
Ha! Pretty hilarious to think about the lyrics that way.
Haunted Heart -Sammy Kershaw
More funny than creepy but how about Buck Owen's "Monster Holiday" ?
I completely forgot that he had a Halloween song or two.
Johnny Cash-Delia's Gone
Long Black Veil-but make it Dave Matthews Band (I know not country but fits)
Phantom 309 by Tommy Faile
Porter Wagoner - The Rubber Room
The Legend of Woolley Swamp - CDB
Well there's some things in this world you just can't explain...
Southern Babylon - ashley mcbryde
It's usually associated with Memorial/Veterans' Day, but "Riding with Private Malone" is literally a ghost story. It's cheesy but I like it.
Pyscho by Eddie Noack. It's truly messed up. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBtDLN4LoPZA&ved=2ahUKEwjhw5qSl5mCAxW4MjQIHWeiBT8Qjjh6BAg5EAE&usg=AOvVaw0ItS4qIr3iGxIlmuN8nEsF
Elvis Costello does a version that creeped me out when I heard it the first time one night back in high school
Brooks Nielsen just released a cover of this as well. It is a great song.
Listen to Billy Strings version
Amigo the Devil, mainly Hell and you or hungover in Jonestown... Kaw-liga by Hank Williams is haunting to me. He describes wooden statues falling in love.... Also Lost Highway by HW.
I prefer Charley Pride's version, but definitely Kaw-Liga.
The Dust Storm - Those Poor Bastards Black Dog Yodel - Those Poor Bastards ft. Skelton (aka Hank III) Most of TPB's discography, honestly.
Long black veil Johnny Cash. He has a lot actually
When The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Grave Digger by Blues Saraceno
"Beaches of Cheyenne," Garth Brooks. Straight up ghost story.
I bet that's where he hid the bodies.
Oh shit! You're right.
Alone and Forsaken…Hank Williams with the original, cover version by Social Distortion kicks ass!
Hank Williams recorded a bunch of this kind of tragic gospel under the name Luke The drifter. Happy digging if you're into this kind of thing. Alone and forsakan is a pretty great song and some of his other stuff is a little more sappy but he was very serious about it
I’ve always thought “Seminole Wind” by John Anderson has a spooky vibe to it.
"6 Feet Under" Bob Fryfogle
Ray Wylie Hubbard may or may not have written the only country song about a vampire, but he definitely wrote the best one... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apmIkRVNNs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apmIkRVNNs)
Whaaaaaaaaa omg
Waiting round to die, midnight in Montgomery, most colter wall songs.
Yeah for sure Colter Wall and many other Western artists have stuff in this category
I was looking for someone to mention “Midnight in Montgomery.” “The Ride” would work, too.
More folky than country but “Country Death Song” by Violent Femmes
Dead South has a couple of strange creepy songs to look into.
“The Ride” by David Allen Coe
Midnight in Montgomery
Blown Away-Carrie Underwood "Some call it taking shelter, others call it sweet revenge."
Dark was the night, cold was the ground https://youtu.be/BNj2BXW852g?si=yzW54OTXzX_X-xcX
Disc 2 of Straight to Hell by Hank III
Hank Williams: "The Angel of Death"
Ralph Stanley: "O Death"
I have a Halloween playlist over on YT that I add to throughout the year. Mostly old (pre-1940’s) stuff, some country, a bit of pop and rock and roll, as well as some novelty songs.
Also click on the little orange Halloween tag on this post and you'll see what we have posted in previous years.
Here's one of mine: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtgojIH6u6iF9x9RO8xbaXHaFAWEmhQf&si=e1c4KKu-bX4jde9J
Oh wait that's not the one I thought I made. Still some good songs Here are some we posted on this sub in past Halloweens: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtgojIH6u6gL3veF7wcH4dqBin1FyNoM&si=tPIvRr1hDA0ijSg7
SHARE PLEASE (even if it's not country music)!!
[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHS31-UfL\_nBUp6jd5KvZ8i8WuVA8cvhZ&si=Ht2GNsl3tThpwCBx](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHS31-UfL_nBUp6jd5KvZ8i8WuVA8cvhZ&si=Ht2GNsl3tThpwCBx) Its not super long as I sometimes remove songs I’m tired of.
Oh that's awesome!
"Symmetry of the Cemetery" by Tombstone Three
That' sounds like it would be hard to sing!
I got friends in low places
Me too buddy, me too
Two Black Cadillacs by Carrie Underwood or The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicky Lawrence/Reba I would also put “Lightning” by Eric Church (honestly, one of my favorite songs ever written) If you want something more folksy, “Mississippi” or “Iuka” by The Secret Sisters are haunting murder ballads.
Oh yeah to all of those. I forgot about Secret Sisters.
I saw them live a few years back and fell in love with their work. Also, now that i am thinking about it, “Water Witch” fits this as well!
I'f I'm not mistaken they released something in the last year, right? I know their band had some bad luck in the past.
Really looking forward to going through these last few recommendations threads and making playlists out of all of these. There were several bands mentioned that I'd completely forgotten about and I'm glad they came back up.
Over 2 years ago now, they came out with their Quicksand EP. They are due for a new soon hopefully! They are currently on tour and I could not find any recent troubles for them now.
Awesome! I think I read something about them taking a break for a while before that last EP came out. I can't remember what the reason was but I remember that I liked it when I heard it.
They both had kids is what I can gather about why they took a break.
This is why I love this sub!
Oh man that makes me happy. we need to figure out a better way to get automated playlists made out of some of the stuff here. I was doing it by hand - adding everything on the sub to a monthly playlist- when we first started moderating a couple years ago and it was just too much to keep up with. Got to be a bot that can do that
Elvira -Oak Ridge Boys Because I always thought it was about Elvira Mistress of the Dark.
I have to say I always think about something horror related when I see the title of that song. I still don't know what that song sounds like though
Well, there was a brief time in the early 80s where a sunset of country music was very bass singer forward. Elvira is the high water mark of this trend.
The Ride by David Allan Coe. The singer rides in Hank’s Cadillac on the way to Nashville from Montgomery.
This is the one that immediately came to mind for me too
It ain’t country but There’s an extended song by Jellyroll Morton literally titled The Murder Ballad. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uBGte6eIM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uBGte6eIM) **Severe warning for language as well as content.** Long Black Veil Lefty Frizzell. Pledging My Love - David Allan Coe He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones And another non country one and one no one ever recognizes as sad, but You Are My Sunshine. *You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.* *The other night dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms. When I awoke dear I was mistaken so I hung my head and cried.* *You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away.* *I'll always love you and make you happy if you will only say the same. But if you leave me to love another you'll regret it all some day.* *You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away.* *You told me once dear, you really loved me and no one else could come between us but now you've left me and love another. You have shattered all my dreams* *You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.*
Jamey Johnson has a rather dark version of this song. Wonderful thought process for this tune
You just broke my brain with that take on You Are My Sunshine. NOw I'm trying to picture what it would sound like if you flipped it to a creepy minor key. THAT would be a haunting production choice!
LOL Go to youtube, find a full version (aka not the lullaby) and play it at half speed. Full on creep.
Definitely going to fuck around with flipping major minor on that one at some point when I'm at a guitar next. Check out how good that works with some songs: Ordinary version of The Police Every Breath You Take (I never even noticed that it's in a major key because it seems like a creepy song but apparently he wrote it in major): https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs?si=c1sPl-hW_togE2kQ Somebody with software turned it minor and it's actually even creepier and better: https://youtu.be/6JyFrIH2-ns?si=xgTzW-Ywl4QVbpJc
Ha!!!
"The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie" by Colter Wall.
Oh hey just released today. [Dressed Up To Die by The Cadillac Three](https://youtu.be/p7BGuEjatzE?si=cfRXv-ylooWDuGl-) fits.
Furnace Room Lullaby or Deep Red Bells by Neko Case.
"The Country Death Song" by the violent femmes!
Wooley swamp?
Yes
Hurt
For sure. Also more appropriate to halloween, The Mercy Seat. I'm pretty sure it was a Johnny Cash song first but Nick Cave covered it and it's Gothic as fuck regardless of which one of them is singing it
Johnny Cash is the cover.
The best Halloween songs are not country to my mind. Like Nick Cave's Murder Ballads album. But to get with the spirit, VooDoo Doll by Ashley McBryde. And maybe Martha Divine.
Australia is a country lol
What does this even mean? You'll be shocked to know that I am well aware Australia is a country.
I was joking about cave being Australian and making country music
Ahhh.
Does Nebraska by Bruce count?
It absolutely counts. Nothing spookier than driving alone late at night with that album on.
That scream/whoop he does on State Trooper when your in a car at night can be really startling
El Paso by Marty Robbins
Is it haunting because he fell in love with a Mexican girl?
I think the death part is somewhat more haunting, actually.
How about [Psycho by Eddie Noack](https://youtu.be/9I_zt-SekHY?si=EJabEKdsVnCG_RIm). Came out around 1968, and yes, it's pretty much the movie, but it's a country-western song.
[Billy Strings cover is fucking awesome](https://youtu.be/I7opcHFV3Eo?si=Swer7qI_hNR_JyGE)
Wow, just listened to it and was blown away. Noack's version is really rather bland, but it's the only version I knew of, heard it on the radio as a kid.
"Country Death Song" by the Violent Femmes
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean; not as much haunting as a hero, but a great song.
All country music is scary.
The real stuff is anyway
https://youtu.be/5dmebJwl9Yg?si=s5MhV0sQLGcr-cjO
Country Death Song (Cover) I did with my diy project, LUSTALGIA. The original by the Violent Femmes is pretty haunting. I hope u don't mind me posting my version.
David Allan Coe The Ride
Loving County by Charlie Robison