Peetie Wheatstraw - The Devil's Son in Law
Peetie Wheatstraw began recording in 1930 and was so popular that he continued to record through the Great Depression, when the…
Outer Dark - Gothic Appalachia
Outer Dark is the second novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy, published in 1968. The time and setting are somewhere in gothic…
Stagger Lee Story - Stagolee Shot Billy
Although the Stagger Lee story has been told countless times–by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal–no…Continue Reading →
Heathen Apostles Video - A Southern Gothic Witch Tale
The Los Angeles gothic americana band the Heathen Apostles have released a new Southern Gothic witch tale in the form…
Sheryl Crow With Johnny Cash "Redemption Day" Released
It’s been nearly two decades since Sheryl Crow released her chart-smashing, self-titled album in 1996, but the pop-gone-country chameleon is…
The Assassination of Jesse James Score - Southern Gothic Soundtrack
The mournful tone of the 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is strikingly captured by the amazing Southern Gothic score by Nick Cave and…Continue Reading →
Lawless Soundtrack - Nick Cave Bootlegger Movie
Listening to 85-year-old bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley sing Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground songs on the soundtrack to Lawless is certainly disorienting – which…
Rachel Brooke - Darkest American Music
Incendiary young country singer and songwriter Rachel Brooke channels the darkest nights of American Southern music, pulling forth influences from…
Abbadon - Gothic Americana Graphic Novel
Abbadon, a Gothic Americana Graphic Novel from writers Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray (Jonah Hex, Power Girl, 21 Down) with art by Fabrizio Fiorentino & Alessia Nocera, Abbadon tells the tale…Continue Reading →
Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Gothic Country Blues
It was one of the greatest blues men, Blind Willie McTell, who on a wintry day in November, 1940, cut…