by means of Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Wools: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Bluesky: @marlonweststl.bsky.social Spotify: marlonwest)
It’s Tune Monday and Halloween right here at Excellent Lightless Information! It’s your buddy and selector, the groove conductor, Marlon West. I’ve returned another time all over this Season of the Witch with some other collection.
I’m simply again from a screening and dialogue with Ryan Coogler and a part of his inventive workforce at the back of SINNERS. It was once the 5th viewing for me, in entire or partly.
I noticed it opening generation laser projected, two weeks next on 70mm IMAX, streamed it two times, as soon as with a sista within the decrease proper nook providing Lightless ASL, and as of late a 70mm print projected on the Administrators Guild of The united states‘s theater with an overly numerous and reactive public early on a Sunday morning. I used to be extremely joyful to run into our GBN Writer-In-Important Lori Lakin Hutcherson and her mom on the similar screening.
I got here proper house and began pecking a couple of phrases in this season’s tune assortment, The Crossroads: A Blues Halloween Playlist.
As any of you that experience my Tune Monday playlist is aware of, I like me some Halloween. That is no less than the 5th All-Hallows Eve assortment I’ve carried out for Excellent Lightless Information.
The cinematic juggernaut this is SINNERS is a great reminder of simply how a lot the blues has handled scares each supernatural and real-world primarily based.
From Robert Johnson’s mythic shuttle the the crossroads to Casual Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground,” the blues has equipped its percentage of eerie moments. Bo Diddley’s iconic ‘Who Do You Love” opens with following boasts:
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed twine
Old a cobra snake for a necktie
Were given a emblem unutilized area at the roadside
Produced from rattlesnake cover
Were given a emblem unutilized chimney made on supremacy
Constructed from a human cranium
Oh, that’s a Halloween music, all proper! Howlin’ Wolf, Koko Taylor, RL Burnside, Norma Tanega, Gary Clark Jr., and such a lot of extra purveyors of the blues are provide for this Halloween assortment.
Whether or not your plans come with handing out sweet to hobgoblins of every age, chillin’ with buddies, or kickin’ at house with that porch luminous out, here’s some other autumnal trade in to experience all over this Halloween Season.
Please experience this assortment, and poke round for my others too:
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See ya then year!
And as at all times, keep secure, sane, and sort!

