Shot Through Your Cheatin’ Heart: “Open Pit Mine” and Country’s Cuckolded Killers
Country Gothic In her oft-cited 1998 essay, “Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music,” Teresa Goddu contrasts “bluegrass” and country. I put “bluegrass” in quotes because the term in the essay mostly means songs that carry the legacy … Continue reading →