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Full Moon, Dark Heart: Eddie Noack’s “Psycho”

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I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times. — Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959) Just out of sight In the summer of 1968, a peculiar country and western song came and went to little fanfare on a … Continue reading →

Shot Through Your Cheatin’ Heart: “Open Pit Mine” and Country’s Cuckolded Killers

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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 →